Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jul 2001 00:24:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ben LaHaise <> |
| |
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> I'm not sure what the best way to fix this is. The problem would crop > up whenever we have a kernel thread which wants to wait for a child > process. I don't think we want to start delivering signals to kernel > threads in the same way that we do to usermode processes though. > > Any suggestions?
Well, linuxrc and a number of aspects of the boot process seem to suffer from attempting to kludge userspace programs into the kernel. To this end, I would like to propose that we move these functions into userspace where they belong and instead provide support for linking an initial filesystem image into vmlinux. We can then move linuxrc, dhcp and other such bits out of the kernel and use the same code as is normally used at run time -> it's better tested and easier to fix.
-ben
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |