Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 03/20] pid: Introduce a generic helper to test for
	init.
From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 12:29 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Introduce is_init to capture this case.  
> 
> With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are looking
> for only the first process on the system, not some other process that
> has pid == 1. 

If we have cases where each container has its own init (like vserver,
right?), will this naming get confusing?  Will we have pseudo-init tasks
as well?

-- Dave

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