On 11/28, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > So there's three useful parts to having a single parent task: > > - its a task so you can change the entire task attribute set; current > and future.
You can't change, say, its fs->root. OK, OK, this is almost off-topic, I am just trying to say that (perhaps) in the longer term we might want even more than just a dedicated kernel thread. > - new children will automatically get the desired attributes. yes, > - all children are easily identified by virtual of being children of > said parent process. Well, UMH_WAIT_PROC won't work in this case, or it will be "single-threaded" too. OK, this is probably solvable, but nontrivial. In this case "khelper" should act as a /sbin/init for user-mode helpers. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
