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-What: find_task_by_pid
-When: 2.6.26
-Why: With pid namespaces, calling this funciton will return the
- wrong task when called from inside a namespace.
-
- The best way to save a task pid and find a task by this
- pid later, is to find this task's struct pid pointer (or get
- it directly from the task) and call pid_task() later.
-
- If someone really needs to get a task by its pid_t, then
- he most likely needs the find_task_by_vpid() to get the
- task from the same namespace as the current task is in, but
- this may be not so in general.
-
-Who: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
-
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-
What: ACPI procfs interface
When: July 2008
Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
* find_pid_ns() finds the pid in the namespace specified
* find_vpid() finr the pid by its virtual id, i.e. in the current namespace
*
- * see also find_task_by_pid() set in include/linux/sched.h
+ * see also find_task_by_vpid() set in include/linux/sched.h
*/
extern struct pid *find_pid_ns(int nr, struct pid_namespace *ns);
extern struct pid *find_vpid(int nr);
* finds a task by its pid in the specified namespace
* find_task_by_vpid():
* finds a task by its virtual pid
- * find_task_by_pid():
- * finds a task by its global pid
*
* see also find_vpid() etc in include/linux/pid.h
*/
extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_type_ns(int type, int pid,
struct pid_namespace *ns);
-static inline struct task_struct *__deprecated find_task_by_pid(pid_t nr)
-{
- return find_task_by_pid_type_ns(PIDTYPE_PID, nr, &init_pid_ns);
-}
extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_vpid(pid_t nr);
extern struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_ns(pid_t nr,
struct pid_namespace *ns);