faster way to find task

[loody]

Hi all:

2011/7/12 loody <miloody at gmail.com>

> Dear all:
> Is there faster way to find a give name of task?
> for example, I have a thread, named "test", is there faster way to get the
> task struct  by passing "test" to some kernel api?
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
I found a way as below:
for_each_process(task) {
printk(“%s[%d]\n”, task->comm, task->pid);
}

But it is time-consuming to do so if I periodically want to know whether
"test" exist or not.
is there better way to do so?


-- 
Regards,
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