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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:28:16 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On 08/27, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Although to be honest, I was seduced by "Worth testing". I mean I am
> > just curious, who can suffer from this change? Nevermind, please
> > ignore.
>
> Yeah, if we were to redesign /proc I'd do it differently, but I think
> we should just accept that it works "well enough" and there's just too
> much risk from making changes that aren't strictly required.

Yes, agreed.

To all: just in case, I will be completely offline till Sep 10, vacation.

So, Eric, if you still disagree with s/task_pid/task_tgid/ change please
nack that (minor) patch, we can return to this later.

Oleg.