Jason Baron wrote:
> right. so the semantics of how file tables are shared has changed a bit. I
> would think that for at least 'init', it'd be nice to preserve the
> original behavior, for situations such as you described. Something like
> the following would probably work, although i havent' tried the test
> script.
>
> --- linux/kernel/fork.c.orig 2003-07-23 21:34:59.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux/kernel/fork.c 2003-07-23 21:35:45.000000000 -0400
> @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ int unshare_files(void)
>
> /* This can race but the race causes us to copy when we don't
> need to and drop the copy */
> - if(atomic_read(&files->count) == 1)
> + if(atomic_read(&files->count) == 1 || (current->pid == 1))
> {
> atomic_inc(&files->count);
> return 0;
Thanks for the hint ! I will try that in the evening. Any chance that
this will be in 2.4.22 final ?
best regards,
Rene
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