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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, holt@sgi.com, oleg@tv-sign.ru
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/3] introduce SYS_CLONE_MASK
In-Reply-To: Eric W. Biederman's message of  Monday, 28 May 2007 22:53:36 -0600 <m1646c8c33.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 22:56:47 -0700 (PDT)
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> Having the kernel not reparent user processes to init is an interesting
> idea, especially when those processes have not existed.  I'm not
> certain that is POSIX complaint and otherwise backwards compatible.

It's hard to see how it would work.  There has to be some parent PID.  The
reason using 1 makes sense is that it is always there.  Anything >0 and not
the PID of some live process could be reused for a new process at some point.


Thanks,
Roland
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