On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > > > shouldn't this be exit_files() ?
>
> > > Yes, definitely.
> > > Arjan already replied (privately) to say the same.
>
> > It should, unless you want to open any files in the thread itself.
>
> If you start a kernel thread which opens files -before- calling
> exit_files(), aren't the files opened associated with the wrong process?
>
> When I was playing around with kernel threads that have their own VM
> mappings, I had to do exit_mm() then create_mm(), or something along
> those lines.
See the patch in another posting.
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