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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/1] proc: turn signal_struct->count into "int
	nr_threads"
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Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

> It is a bit sad we need a word in struct signal_struct for this, perhaps
> we can change get_nr_threads() to approximate the number of threads using
> signal->live and kill ->nr_threads later.

Agreed.


Thanks,
Roland