Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net> writes: > On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 17:44 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> Miklos Szeredi <mik...@szeredi.hu> writes: >> >> > These two patches change autofs4 to store struct pid pointers instead of >> > pid_t >> > values. >> > >> > Fixed various issues with the previous post. Not tested, handle with >> > care! >> >> Customer gave positive test results. > > For what exactly, there's no problem description in these patches?
>From what I understand (and I'm not an expert by any means) is that autofs doesn't work if containers are used. The first patch fixes this. Both the patches replace pid_t with a refcounted struct pid object, which has better lifetime properties: you don't know whether a pid_t is valid, because pid numbers are reused, while pid objects remain valid until there are no more references to them. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
