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

Cedric Le Goater clg at fr.ibm.com
Fri Sep 8 06:19:41 PDT 2006


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 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.

ok. I will port the patchset on the new -mm and include next_pidmap.

thanks,

C.




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