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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

      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-30 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-30  5:05 Rusty Russell
2002-05-30 10:05 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]

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