On 12/12/06, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote: > > Since the kthread api does not bump the reference count on > processes that tracked it is not safe allow user space to > kill the threads, as I still retain a pointer to the task_struct. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> Finally unstacking to my patch queue. Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergren <ericvh at gmail.com>