On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:25:56PM +0200, Artur Grabowski wrote:

 > > But was value is curproc when creating a kernel thread ? Can a user process
 > > or a kernel thread create another kernel thread ?
 > 
 > Yes, it works. Don't ask me how I know this, I'm not proud of it.

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.

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