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From: "Martin Frey" <frey@scs.ch>
To: "'Andrew Morton'" <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
Cc: "'Benjamin Herrenschmidt'" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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Subject: RE: kernel_thread vs. zombie
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:06:56 -0800
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>So I think it's reasonable to use keventd as `kinit', if you like.
>Something which knows how to launch and reap kernel daemons, and
>which provides a known environment to them.
>
>A kernel API function (`kernel_daemon'?) which does all this
>boilerplate is needed, I think.
>
I completely agree. I'll be on a trip for the next two weeks, but
after that I can write a small example how it would look. I'll mail
again when it is ready.

Thanks, Martin
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