Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues (take 2)

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:27:59 -0600
[email protected] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> +	strcpy(tsk->comm, "kthreadd");

We have this dopey set_task_comm() thing which is there to avoid
races when userspace is looking at this task's name via /proc.

It obviously doesn't matter in this case, but I suppose one should
set a good example.  I'll make that change.
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