Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262765AbTIVDlu (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:41:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262766AbTIVDlu (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:41:50 -0400 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:18633 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262765AbTIVDlt (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:41:49 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:41:46 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: CLONE_SIGHAND w/o CLONE_VM Message-ID: <20030922034146.GA8083@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Albert Cahalan , linux-kernel mailing list References: <1064199244.746.401.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1064199244.746.401.camel@cube> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 833 Lines: 21 On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:54:05PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Does CLONE_SIGHAND without CLONE_VM ever > make sense? > > Note that the arch-specific kernel_thread() > implementations add CLONE_VM, so kernel_thread() > usage doesn't count unless you can point to an > arch that doesn't add the CLONE_VM flag. (BTW, the > user-mode port is missing CLONE_UNTRACED. Bug?) Minor bug, but yes, it's a bug. kernel threads should always be CLONE_UNTRACED; UML wasn't in the tree when I added it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/