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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:39:45 +0100
From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] big stack variables
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On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:01:22AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> 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.

ObUML (again): Any estimated time of submission to Linus?! Is this
an early v2.5-thing, or are the changes minor enough to the rest of the
tree to allow for an v2.4-merge?


/David
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