From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270081AbTHBSiT (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:38:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270093AbTHBSiT (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:38:19 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:35556 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270081AbTHBSiQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Aug 2003 14:38:16 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:39:29 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linux Kernel List , Roland McGrath , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] bug in setpgid()? process groups and thread groups Message-ID: <20030802183929.GA32488@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Ulrich Drepper , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Linux Kernel List , Roland McGrath , Andrew Morton References: <1059811048.18516.43.camel@ixodes.goop.org> <3F2B7435.7070101@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F2B7435.7070101@redhat.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:20:05AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > The problem is that Linus already said it is too late for this for 2.6. > So we are waiting for a signal that the time is right. The changes > will be substantial since all the different IDs should be covered. I think callers can be converted incrementally, so long as the transition is (unfortunately) slow. I can help devise a patch breakup plan or do other footwork (e.g. code) if you want or need helpers. -- wli