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

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Message-ID: <m1pry6ul20.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:50:15 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
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()

Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru> writes:

> 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().

Definitely. I'm just testing now to make certain my code actually works.
I have respun my patch to return a structure as I figured out how to
do that cleanly.

Eric
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