Re: problem with "Use CLONE_KERNEL for the common kernel thread

Ingo Molnar (mingo@redhat.com)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:56:32 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> -#define CLONE_SIGNAL (CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_THREAD)
> +#define CLONE_KERNEL (CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGHAND)
> - kernel_thread(init, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGNAL);
> + kernel_thread(init, NULL, CLONE_KERNEL);
>
> init used to be spawned with CLONE_THREAD and no longer is. Was this
> intentional? [...]

i think Linus combined a cleanup with the fix i sent earlier today, so
this does look intentional.

Ingo

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