1. 29 Mar, 2006 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      [PATCH] exec: allow init to exec from any thread. · fef23e7f
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      After looking at the problem of init calling exec some more I figured out
      an easy way to make the code work.
      
      The actual symptom without out this patch is that all threads will die
      except pid == 1, and the thread calling exec.  The thread calling exec will
      wait forever for pid == 1 to die.
      
      Since pid == 1 does not install a handler for SIGKILL it will never die.
      
      This modifies the tests for init from current->pid == 1 to the equivalent
      current == child_reaper.  And then it causes exec in the ugly case to
      modify child_reaper.
      
      The only weird symptom is that you wind up with an init process that
      doesn't have the oldest start time on the box.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      fef23e7f
  2. 28 Mar, 2006 39 commits