Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> writes: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 10:42:10PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> The problem by remember a user space process by it's pid it is >> possible that the process will exit, pid wrap around will occur and a >> different process will appear in it's place. Holding a reference >> to a struct pid avoid that problem, and paves the way >> for implementing a pid namespace. >> >> Also since usb is the only user of kill_proc_info_as_uid >> rename kill_proc_info_as_uid to kill_pid_info_as_uid >> and have the new version take a struct pid. >> >> This patch is against 2.6.18-rc6-mm1. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> > > Looks good to me. > > Do you want me to take this in my tree, or will you be going through > Andrew, like your other, related pid stuff? If through Andrew, please > feel free to add: > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de> Sure. I think going through Andrew makes sense. As I probably have a helper function or two in Andrews tree that hasn't hit wider distribution. Eric
