Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261660AbTKQVSW (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:18:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261973AbTKQVSW (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:18:22 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60625 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261660AbTKQVSU (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:18:20 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:18:11 -0500 (EST) From: James Morris X-X-Sender: jmorris@thoron.boston.redhat.com To: Andrew Morton cc: sds@epoch.ncsc.mil, , , Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] Remove CLONE_FILES from init kernel thread creation In-Reply-To: <20031117124954.6fa4e366.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 633 Lines: 24 On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: > No, I can't think of a reason why we'd need CLONE_FILES in there. I'll > toss it in and see what breaks. Ok, also, for reference, Russell Coker discovered the issue and this fix was suggested by Stephen Smalley. > I wonder why call_usermodehelper() uses CLONE_FILES... Because it's faster? - James -- James Morris - 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/