is for_each_task broken on SMP?

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for_each_task skips the first task in the task list, init.

But with SMP, init and only init can be cloned.
In the SMP case, shouldn't it skip pid==1?

kernel/capability.c cap_set_all() gets this right
but every other use of for_each_task
that I checked didn't.

Chris Sears
cbsears@ix.netcom.com

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