Re: 2.4.21 -> 2.4.22 kernel thread oddities

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2003-09-09 at 20:29, hendriks@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> The "unshare_files" addition to execve() is having some unexpected
> side effects for a funky init() program that I use on our clusters.
> Basically the problem is that standard-equipment type kernel threads
> (e.g. kupdated, bdflush) are ending up with open file descriptors on a
> file system that I wish to unmount.

I sent Marcelo a fix for this in 2.4.23pre/2.4.22-ac - see the change to
init/main.c


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