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Revision 3cec556a84be02bcd8755422eec61f1b9bee4e2f authored by Eric W. Biederman on 13 December 2006, 08:35:10 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 13 December 2006, 17:05:53 UTC
Currently this driver tracks user space clients it should send signals to.  In
the presenct of file descriptor passing this is appears susceptible to
confusion from pid wrap around issues.

Replacing this with a struct pid prevents us from getting confused, and
prepares for a pid namespace implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Tip revision: 3cec556a84be02bcd8755422eec61f1b9bee4e2f authored by Eric W. Biederman on 13 December 2006, 08:35:10 UTC
[PATCH] n_r3964: Use struct pid to track user space clients
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