Re: [PATCH repost] sched: export sched_set/getaffinity to modules

Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-27T15:41:55Z

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:08:34PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/26, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> >
> > I have been testing out a similar patch that uses kernel_thread() without CLONE_FILES
> > flag rather than create_kthread() and then closing the files.
>
> !CLONE_FILES can't help. copy_files() does dup_fd() in this case.
> The child still inherits the files.
>
> > Either version should be fine.
>
> I think neither version is fine ;)
>
> exit_files() is not enough too. How about the signals, reparenting?
>
>
> I already forgot all details, probably I missed somethig. But it
> seems to me that it is better to just export get/set affinity and
> forget about all complications.
>
> Oleg.

Oleg, so can I attach your Ack to the patch in question, and merge
it all through net-next?

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