On Friday 15 January 2010 10:21:46 pm Matt Helsley wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 04:12:09PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > > 2. If the event recipient does a clone and enters a new pidns the pid > > > number will be incorrect without any indication. > > > > No, if a process has a pid within the listener's namespace the listener > > will see this pid; otherwise, the resulting pid value is 0. > > So the pid reference is resolved at read(), correct? If so then that's > fine. (Otherwise I'd think the values could still become stale). Yes. Note that for non-blocking events, there is no guarantee that the triggering process still runs when the event is consumed though. Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
