Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Pollard <> | Subject | Re: Patch: oom_kill | Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:55:14 -0600 |
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On Tuesday 04 February 2003 08:13 am, Axel Kittenberger wrote: > > And what about processes that get reparented to init? These could be > > causing the OOM. I didn't think that the p_ptr was null when reparenting > > happens. > > Okay good, should we use the "original parent" instead?
I'm not familiar enough with the reparenting to know. I'm not sure you can tell the difference.
> Yes, I'm not absolutly not sure if the != NULL expression is necessary, > Don't know enough about the task structering for this. I tried without and > the machine at least didn't crash, but just wanted to be safe.
I was considering that a possible test for a reparented process since the original parent doesn't necessarily exist anymore, though it would make more sense to have that point to init, than point to anything else.
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