Request for documentation of PID handling functions

From: David Howells
Date: Mon Jul 28 2008 - 18:59:58 EST



Hi Pavel,

Can you please provide documentation for the PID handling functions you
supplied in commit:

7af5729474b5b8ad385adadab78d6e723e7655a3

In particular I'd like to know what locks are required when. I'm trying to
determine if in this piece of code:

read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
ret = 0;
if (pid != task_pid_vnr(current))
ret = -EPERM;
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

the lock of tasklist_lock is necessary.

David
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