On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:10:43 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue at us.ibm.com> wrote: > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm at xmission.com): > > To avoid pid rollover confusion the kernel needs to work with > > struct pid * instead of pid_t. Currently there is not an iterator > > that walks through all of the tasks of a given pid type starting > > with a struct pid. This prevents us replacing some pid_t instances > > with struct pid. So this patch adds do_each_pid_task which walks > > through the set of task for a given pid type starting with a struct pid. > > > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> > > --- > > include/linux/pid.h | 13 +++++++++++++ > > 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h > > index 93da7e2..4007114 100644 > > --- a/include/linux/pid.h > > +++ b/include/linux/pid.h > > @@ -118,4 +118,17 @@ #define while_each_task_pid(who, type, t > > 1; }) ); \ > > } > > > > +#define do_each_pid_task(pid, type, task) \ > > Hmm, defining do_each_pid_task right after do_each_task_pid could result > in some frustration :) That's all right - developers can read the comments to work out what each one does. <seems I'm having a sarcastic day>