Bug#333522: possible problem cause: wait4(-1)

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 23:07 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Any comments?

Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote:
> 0. the module loading tool runs during boot with PID 1.

I do not understand how this can happen.  request_module() cannot occur
until usermodehelper_init() is called.  This is only done once the init
thread is spawned, which should take pid 1.

Also, reparenting should happen to the process in the kernel which is
"child_reaper", even if another process were to have PID 1...

Rusty.
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