Re: [RFC, PATCH 1/3] introduce SYS_CLONE_MASK

[Roland McGrath]

> Having the kernel not reparent user processes to init is an interesting
> idea, especially when those processes have not existed.  I'm not
> certain that is POSIX complaint and otherwise backwards compatible.

It's hard to see how it would work.  There has to be some parent PID.  The
reason using 1 makes sense is that it is always there.  Anything >0 and not
the PID of some live process could be reused for a new process at some point.


Thanks,
Roland
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