linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] show_task: real

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Message-ID: <20080109091642.GA20457@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:16:42 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show_task: real_parent


* Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com> wrote:

> The show_task function invoked by sysrq-t et al displays the pid and 
> parent's pid of each task.  It seems more useful to show the actual 
> process hierarchy here than who is using ptrace on each process.

>  	printk(KERN_CONT "%5lu %5d %6d\n", free,
> -		task_pid_nr(p), task_pid_nr(p->parent));
> +		task_pid_nr(p), task_pid_nr(p->real_parent));

thanks, applied.

you must be hacking ptrace/gdb/strace code right now ;-)

	Ingo
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