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Subject: Re: OOPS on bringing down ppp
To: andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 14:04:53 +0000 (GMT)
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> Not my area, but I don't think exec_usermodehelper() should assume
> that current->files is always valid.
> 
> Al, is this correct?  If so, does daemonize() also need this test?
> If not, then how did this thread get (current->files == NULL)?

exit_files() will leave it NULL yes. You may want to borrow (inherit ;)) the
files from init_task

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