From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161036AbWARWzl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:55:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932580AbWARWzl (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:55:41 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:12939 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932576AbWARWzk (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:55:40 -0500 Subject: Re: RFC [patch 00/34] PID Virtualization Overview From: Alan Cox To: Dave Hansen Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Suleiman Souhlal , Serge Hallyn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hubertus Franke , Cedric Le Goater In-Reply-To: <1137613088.24321.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060117143258.150807000@sergelap> <43CD18FF.4070006@FreeBSD.org> <1137517698.8091.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43CD32F0.9010506@FreeBSD.org> <1137521557.5526.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1137522550.14135.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1137610912.24321.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1137612537.3005.116.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1137613088.24321.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:54:27 +0000 Message-Id: <1137624867.1760.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mer, 2006-01-18 at 11:38 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > But, it seems that many drivers like to print out pids as a unique > identifier for the task. Should we just let them print those > potentially non-unique identifiers, deprecate and kill them, or provide > a replacement with something else which is truly unique? Pick a format for container number + pid and document/stick with it - something like container::pid (eg 0::114) or 114[0] whatever so long as it is consistent