Re: [PATCH] add process_session() helper routine

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:37:44 +0200
Cedric Le Goater <clg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch replaces occurences of task->signal->session by a new 
> process_session() helper routine. 
> 
> It will be useful for pid namespaces to abstract the session pid
> number.

hm.

> +static inline pid_t process_session(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> +	return tsk->signal->session;
> +}
> +

We should rename signal_struct.session to something else
(session_dont_use_me_directly) so that any code which accidentally fails to
use the wrapper will reliably fail to build.

That means that we'll also need a helper function to set this field.
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