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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html