Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:04:27 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() |
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu writes:
> There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init > because we give it special properties. Most significantly init > must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test > ->pid == 1. > > Introduce is_init to capture this case. > > With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are > looking for only the first process on the system, not some other > process that has pid == 1. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> > Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
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