From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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: Fw: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove CLONE_FILES from init kernel thread creation
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:42:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031118231021.D61362C242@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:32:40 -0800." <20031117133240.04e9c8e8.akpm@osdl.org>
In message <20031117133240.04e9c8e8.akpm@osdl.org> you write:
>
> Rusty? Any idea why call_usermodehelper() uses CLONE_FILES?
Your guess is correct about consolidation. But there is no bug
AFAICT.
The "normal" (non-waiting case) uses "CLONE_VFORK | SIGCHLD". The
"waiting" case uses "CLONE_KERNEL", but then that thread does another
fork with just "SIGCHLD".
ie. the actual thread which does the exec never uses CLONE_FILES.
Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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