linux-kernel - Re: how to find a task through name faster?

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:39:05 +0800
From:	loody <miloody@...il.com>
To:	Muthu Kumar <muthu.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to find a task through name faster?

hi:

2011/7/12 Muthu Kumar <muthu.lkml@...il.com>:
> Let me ask a trivial question: Should this be done in kernel? Can't
> you push it to user space and walk the /proc to find if the process is
> there.
The root file system is fixed, that means I cannot add any program as I want.
BTW, will that be faster is run a user mode program to walk through /proc?
it still need to search one by one, right?
Thanks for your reply.
BR,
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