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From: "Goff, Thomas" <Thomas.Goff@boeing.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:18:12 -0700

> On Wed March 24, 2010 12:59 AM, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ACK tgid patch, should have sent it myself long ago.
> 
> Thanks for reviewing this.
> 
> David is correct that pid is arbitrary here anyway so it really
> shouldn't matter.  The patch just lets applications that make an
> incorrect assumption that happens to usually be right for the
> initial namespace work similarly in other namespaces.  So
> including the patch seems more of a policy question.

I ended up applying this to net-next-2.6, it's not critical
so it's not net-2.6 material, but it's harmless so we can
still queue it up for the next merge window.