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From: Francesco Casadei <fr.casadei@tiscali.it>
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How one is supposed to handle the reference count of a task_struct from a 
kernel module?

get_task_struct() and put_task_struct() do not work, because the latter can't 
be used from a module, since it calls __put_task_struct(), which is not 
EXPORT_SYMBOL()'d.

I'm running 2.6.8.1.

Thanks in advance for your time,

	Francesco Casadei