Bug#333522: possible problem cause: wait4(-1)
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 15:38 +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> The process I am talking about was running in init's context. It _was_
> the initrd's init process, actually.
Right. It's not a modprobe bug then. Thanks, that makes sense.
Cheers,
Rusty.
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