linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] task_pid_nr_ns() breaks proc_pid

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Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:29:37 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] task_pid_nr_ns() breaks proc_pid_readdir()

On 11/19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I think we can solve the immediate issues cleanly
> without it, and we are pretty much in bug fixing territory now.

Yes sure. Besides, the "patch" I showed for illustration is not complete,
and it is not easy to solve the problems with exec().

Could you re-send your patch with changelog to Andrew? I agree, it is better
to pass a pointer than to add the horrible hack to proc_pid_readdir().

Oleg.

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