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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
	sds@epoch.ncsc.mil, aviro@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, russell@coker.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove CLONE_FILES from init kernel thread creation
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:25:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031117132555.A24403@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031117124954.6fa4e366.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:49:54PM -0800

* Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> 
> I wonder why call_usermodehelper() uses CLONE_FILES...

Looks like 2.5 used to actually close all fd's before exec'ing the
usermodehelper.  I wonder if it's just a result of Rusty's consolidation
and using CLONE_KERNEL?

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-17 20:00 James Morris
2003-11-17 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-17 21:18   ` James Morris
2003-11-17 21:25   ` Chris Wright [this message]

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