Re: [PATCH] pidspace: is_init()

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 <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
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