Re: [PATCH? 3/3] move daemonized kernel threads into the swapper's session

[email protected] (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> Hmm.  I wonder if we could ensure kernel_thread always
> returns a global pid_t, and then reallocate the struct
> pid for the task we have just daemonized so that it only
> has a single pid in the init_pid_ns.

Well we can't reallocate the struct pid, if anyone was using
it we would have problems, but we can certainly remove all
pid_t values except for those in the init_pid_ns.

We definitely have some serious issues with kernel_thread
and signal sending though.

Eric

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- [PATCH? 3/3] move daemonized kernel threads into the swapper's session
  - From: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
- Re: [PATCH? 3/3] move daemonized kernel threads into the swapper's session
  - From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)

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