Re: Unified power management userspace policy

John Fremlin (vii@penguinpowered.com)
09 Jan 2001 13:54:50 +0000


Hi!

Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> writes:

> Could you please use call_usermodehelper() in this patch
> rather than exec_usermodehelper()? I want to kill
> exec_usermodehelper() sometime.

The reason I used exec_usermodehelper is that I wanted to waitpid on
the process to see how it exited. Am I still allowed to do that if it
runs as a child of keventd?

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