* Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > the problem is, this interface stores historic PIDs too - i.e. PIDs
> > of tasks that might have exited already.
>
> Well struct pid * works in that case if you grab the reference to it.
but the display of the stats might happen much later. The point of this
API is to save pid+comm, which gives users a good idea about what caused
the events in the past - without having to pin any resource of that
task.
> {
> timer->start_site = NULL;
> + pit_pid(timer->start_pid);
> + timer->start_pid = NULL;
s/pit/put, right?
Ingo
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