Re: [RFC][PATCH 03/20] pid: Introduce a generic helper to test forinit.

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 15:23:23 EST


Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 12:29 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Introduce is_init to capture this case.
>>
>> With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are looking
>> for only the first process on the system, not some other process that
>> has pid == 1.
>
> If we have cases where each container has its own init (like vserver,
> right?), will this naming get confusing? Will we have pseudo-init tasks
> as well?

Agreed. That is a potential issue. I couldn't think of a better name.
Suggestions?

Eric
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