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To: andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:15:56 +0100 (BST)
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> Plus it would mean that the kernel requires, for its
> correct operation, that process "1" is a child reaper.
> Is this a good thing?

That is already required. The rest of the reparenting functionality is also
in kernel/exit.c already

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