From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.19 daemonize calls reparent_init for you
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:05:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020530120505.H681@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17DI7X-00030e-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au>
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:05:07PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> daemonize() should call reparent_to_init: a classic mistake (I made it
> recently).
>
> Future potential cleanups:
> daemonize() should take mask of signals to allow
> kernel_thread() should take a name to copy into ->comm.
Why no generating kernel threads by basically cloning "init"?
This is what we do anyway (creating a clone of init with special
properties) but by cloning the current process and adjusting
everything needed later to make it appear of a mixture of init
clone and idle process clone.
Comments?
Regards
Ingo Oeser
--
Science is what we can tell a computer. Art is everything else. --- D.E.Knuth
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