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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:22:49 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Oren Laadan <orenl@librato.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v17][PATCH 14/60] pids 4/7: Add target_pids parameter to
	alloc_pid()
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Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl@librato.com):
> From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This parameter is currently NULL, but will be used in a follow-on patch.

Note that patches 1-4 of the clone_with_pid() patchset should
also be useful if we decide to re-create process trees in-kernel
and not export clone_with_pid().  (Though maybe not immediately
applicable to Alexey's current kthread_run()-based approach).

-serge