Re: [CHECKER] big stack variables

From: Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Date: Sat Mar 17 2001 - 01:01:22 EST


viro@math.psu.edu said:
> ObUML: something fishy happens in UML with multiple exec() in PID 1.
> Try to say "telinit u" (or just boot with init=/bin/sh and say exec /
> sbin/init) and you've got a nice panic()...

ObFix: This is fixed in my current CVS. If you're not so desperate for the
fix, then it will be in my 2.4.3 release. Basically, the problem was that it
assumed that the only exec done by pid 1 was the kernel thread execing init,
and things got exciting when that turned out not to be true.

                                Jeff

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