Re: [PATCH] Scheduling problems wrt SMP

[Alan Cox]

> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure. The only ppid you can switch to validly is init. There is
> > no "reparent" function in Unix. So if it changes it goes to init. Init
> > doesnt die - right ?
> 
> (oops. i thought we have a reparent.)

The only reparenting we do is in ptrace(), and that doesnt touch the
parent pointer getppid uses


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