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

Roland McGrath
2007-05-29T05:56:58Z

> 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