From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ebiederm@xmission.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, serue@us.ibm.com,
clg@fr.ibm.com, lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pidspace: is_init()
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:04:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17625.24267.334013.678760@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060809005637.GA13714@us.ibm.com>
Sukadev Bhattiprolu writes:
> There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
> because we give it special properties. Most significantly init
> must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test
> ->pid == 1.
>
> Introduce is_init to capture this case.
>
> With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
> looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
> process that has pid == 1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 4:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-09 0:56 Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2006-08-09 4:04 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2006-08-09 8:28 ` [Devel] [Lxc-devel] " Kirill Korotaev
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