RE: [andrewm@uow.edu.au: Re: 2.4.0-test6-pre5: fork: Resource tem

Dunlap, Randy (randy.dunlap@intel.com)
Sun, 6 Aug 2000 15:27:48 -0700

I have the same result that Chris just reported.
Still hanging during/after "Bringing up interface lo".

~Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wedgwood [mailto:cw@f00f.org]
> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 3:18 PM
> To: Linus Torvalds
> Cc: David S. Miller; Andrew Morton; Frank van Maarseveen;
> linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: [andrewm@uow.edu.au: Re: 2.4.0-test6-pre5: fork: Resource
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>
> Yes. The correct fix should be to add a
>
> atomic_inc(&current->user->processes);
>
> to just before the atomic_dec(&user->processes). Because we also
> need to increment the root process count and not just decrement
> the process count of whoever happened to do the kmod()..
>
> Despite two other 'success' reports I have a negative here; the
> system does boot and run normally -- but when changing runlevels (ie.
> to reboot) I get the fork nasties...
>
>
> --cw
>
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