On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:13:29AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > > A single parent process for all usermode helpers makes so much sense; > > not doing it is just weird. > > If we're gonna allow userland to play with the parent attributes, > yeah, that'd make sense. I'm not sure whether that's an interface > that we'd want to commit to tho? Do we really want to tell userland > "there will always be a kernel task khelper and if you change that > one's attributes all processes forked from it will inherit those > attributes no matter what they are." I think we'd want something more > specific cause that's a lot of commitment to things that we haven't > carefully thought about.
It seems like a perfectly fine interface to me. And much preferable to creating yet another weird interface to manage tasks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
