Re: [PATCH] fs, proc: Introduce /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/children entry v7

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 03:14:05PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
...
> >
> >> > +static int children_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
> >> > +{
> >> > +	struct inode *inode = seq->private;
> >> > +	unsigned long pid;
> >> > +
> >> > +	pid = (unsigned long)pid_nr_ns(v, inode->i_sb->s_fs_info);
> >> > +	return seq_printf(seq, " %lu", pid);
> >> > +}
> >> 
> >> just noticed... why unsigned long and %lu? afaics pid_t/%d should work
> >> without any typecasts.
> >> 
> >
> > I'm not sure how important it is, but Andrew mentioned in one of email
> > that we might be moving from pid_t from int to long one day (which of
> > course will require extreme huge work on checking code where int->long
> > transition might cause problems). So I thought why should I wait then?
> >
> > [ Andrew, am I correct? ]
> 
> It is going to take a lot to get to a > 32bit pid value.  I would not
> worry about it today unless there is some 64bit arch somewhere that defines
> pid_t as long.
> 

Yeah, it seems I overdone here ;) I've sent updated version with pid_t.

	Cyrill