From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] show_task: real_parent
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:15:16 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080109201516.ADAD326F9A8@magilla.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Linus Torvalds's message of Wednesday, 9 January 2008 08:03:51 -0800 <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801090800360.3148@woody.linux-foundation.org>
I agree with your points. I thought about making it display both.
But I didn't want to worry about breaking scripts that parse console
logs or whatever. Personally I don't think I've ever found the ppid
in that display useful in debugging a ptrace issue. I don't have any
special opinions about this display. I just went on a little crusade
to get rid of task_struct.parent uses that aren't specifically for
its ptrace/wait purpose.
Thanks,
Roland
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 8:03 Roland McGrath
2008-01-09 9:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-09 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-09 20:15 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
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