Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 May 2002 12:05:05 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.19 daemonize calls reparent_init for you |
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:05:07PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > daemonize() should call reparent_to_init: a classic mistake (I made it > recently). > > Future potential cleanups: > daemonize() should take mask of signals to allow > kernel_thread() should take a name to copy into ->comm.
Why no generating kernel threads by basically cloning "init"?
This is what we do anyway (creating a clone of init with special properties) but by cloning the current process and adjusting everything needed later to make it appear of a mixture of init clone and idle process clone.
Comments?
Regards
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