* Robert Love (rml@tech9.net) wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 09:23, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> > How very odd. I have been running 2.5 on that machine for a while, and
> > the bug only showed up somewhere between 2.5.36 and 2.5.40. Maybe a
> > coincidence triggered by the PID hashing... your tabbing is a little
> > odd but the patch looks right to me. Thanks!
>
> I too wonder if the bug is due to the pid changes and not me :)
No way man! ;-)
> find_task_by_pid(0) should just return current, which was my intention
> to avoid conditional code-paths. Maybe I should of used
> find_process_by_pid()... it seems in the latest 2.5 that still returns
> current if !pid, at least.
kernel/sched.c::static inline task_t *find_process_by_pid...
Guess that won't work w/out more changes. Perhaps it's simpler/safer
to be just be explicit in this case.
thanks,
-chris
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