Re: do_execve calls destroy_context when init_new_context has failed

[Chris Wright]

* David Meybohm (frumplestillskins@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Who's right here?  fork or exec?

I think both are right.  The difference is on execve the mm is completely
fresh (specifically it's zeroed out, including the context).  On fork
it's manually copied from the parent, so destroying it could actually
destory some parent context.

thanks,
-chris
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