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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [CHECKER] big stack variables 
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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
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viro@math.psu.edu said:
> ObUML: something fishy happens in UML with multiple exec() in PID 1.
> Try to say "telinit u" (or just boot with init=/bin/sh and say exec /
> sbin/init) and you've got a nice panic()... 

ObFix:  This is fixed in my current CVS.  If you're not so desperate for the 
fix, then it will be in my 2.4.3 release.  Basically, the problem was that it 
assumed that the only exec done by pid 1 was the kernel thread execing init, 
and things got exciting when that turned out not to be true.

				Jeff


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