Subject: Re: tsleep() in vfs_shutdown (update)
To: Jason R Thorpe , Artur Grabowski <art@stacken.kth.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/29/2000 18:29:23
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:59:05AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> Well, RAIDframe uses this.  Basically, anything that calls kthread_create()
> does this.
> 
> Only kthread_create() is allowed to fork non-curproc, and it always forks
> proc0.  It's simply a special case, not a general rule.

Can we imagine something that something could be fork non-curproc and
non-proc0, or would it fail in the current state of the code ?

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