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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: [Patch][RFC] Disabling per-tgid stats on task exit in taskstats
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:19:55 -0400
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On Fri, 2006-30-06 at 15:10 -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:

> 
> Also to get feedback on this kind of usage of the nl_pid field, the
> approach etc.
> 

It does not look unreasonable. I think you may have issues when you have
multiple such sockets opened within a single process. But 
do some testing and see how it goes.

cheers,
jamal