linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] pid_ns: de_thread: kill the now unneeded ->child

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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:04:41 -0700
From:	sukadev@...ibm.com
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Robert Rex <robert.rex@...sol.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] pid_ns: de_thread: kill the now unneeded
	->child_reaper change

Oleg Nesterov [oleg@...sign.ru] wrote:
| de_thread() checks if the old leader was the ->child_reaper, this is not
| possible any longer. With the previous patch ->group_leader itself will
| change ->child_reaper on exit.
| 
| >From now find_new_reaper() is the only function (apart from initialization)
| which plays with ->child_reaper.
| 
| Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

Acked-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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