Re: [PATCH] pre7-4 rpciod fix

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 23:12:09 EST


   Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 03:57:41 +0200 (CEST)
   From: Eric Lammerts <eric@scintilla.utwente.nl>

   When running 2.3.99pre7-4 nfsroot, readlink() on /proc/5/exe
   (rpciod) causes an oops. This is because rpciod is fired up before
   the root filesystem is mounted. The patch below fixes it.

Actually, rpciod should probably be calling daemonize() instead
of all the explicit exit_*() calls.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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