[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename pspace to pid_namespace

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Fri Sep 8 04:30:18 PDT 2006


Cedric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at us.ibm.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Rename struct pspace to struct pid_namespace for consistency with
>>> other namespaces (uts_namespace and ipc_namespace). Also rename
>>> include/linux/pspace.h to include/linux/pid_namespace.h and variables
>>> from pspace to pid_ns.
>> 
>> This fails to fixup next_pidmap, which was added recently.
>> 
>> It turned out that readdir on /proc was iterating through processes
>> in a completely broken way, so it needed to be changed to iterate
>> through processes in pid order.
>
> That's a pending patch for next -mm, right ?

I was about to say yes.  But Andrew just released 2.6.18-rc6-mm1
So it isn't pending anymore.

Eric




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