[Containers] [PATCH 1/7] pid: Implement access helpers for a tacks various process groups.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Tue Aug 15 12:03:50 PDT 2006


Dave Hansen <haveblue at us.ibm.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:23 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> +static inline struct pid *task_pid(struct task_struct *task)
>> +{
>> +       return task->pids[PIDTYPE_PID].pid;
>> +} 
>
> Does this mean we can start to deprecate the use of tsk->pid?

Good question.  I think there are enough users in the same process
case that it might not make sense to get rid of tsk->pid.  Some
of tsk->pids cousins though like tgid are definitely up for grabs.

I haven't gotten far enough to be able to say for certain.

Eric



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