On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 04:03:38PM -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > task->pid is only ever assigned once (well ok, twice). For system health and > secure logging confidence, make it const to make it much more intentional when > it is being changed. > --- > > Peter, as you had suggested, does this approach work for you in terms of > making > task_struct::pid a lot more difficult to accidentally change to try to > preserve > its integrity?
Yeah, looks good to me. > Is the use of memcpy() significantly different from *p = *q ? You'd have to look at the asm, but I suspect gcc knows to do full struct copies using mempcy. -- 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/
