Eli Carter wrote:

> Having not looked at the code... Why not "if( p->pid > 1 )"?  (Or can
> p->pid can be negative?!, um, typecast to unsigned...)

I simply mirrored the check done in do_exit():

	if (tsk->pid == 1)
		panic("Attempted to kill init!");

Since PID_MAX is 32768 I do not believe pids can be negative.

I suppose one could make an argument for skipping "daemons", i.e.
pids below 300 (see the get_pid() function in kernel/fork.c), but
I think that is a larger issue.

Pat

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