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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:10:55 +0200 (CEST)
From: Frank Cornelis <fcorneli@elis.ugent.be>
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Subject: Re: __put_task_struct
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:58:15PM +0200, Frank Cornelis wrote:

> > When using get/put_task_struct from inside a module, kbuild warns about
> > __put_task_struct being undefined. Can someone export this function?
> 
> Why would you use it in a module?

To make sure nobody destroys the task_struct while I'm manipulating it
(of course using task_lock/unlock). I'm just using the same 'lock 
strategy' as done in asm/i386/kernel/ptrace.c and I guess that code is 
correct.

Frank.