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To: Dave Hansen <hansendc@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs lockd reclaimer: Convert to kthread API
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Dave Hansen <hansendc@us.ibm.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 17:19 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> > With pid namespaces all kernel threads will disappear so how do
>> > we cope with the problem when the sysadmin can not see the kernel
>> > threads?
>
> Do they actually always disappear, or do we keep them in the
> init_pid_namespace?

In the init pid namespace but not in any of it's children.

Eric