[3940] in arla-drinkers
Re: Process pointer PID panics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Olsson)
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From: Tomas Olsson <tol@stacken.kth.se>
To: christopher@0x90.org
Subject: Re: Process pointer PID panics
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christopher@0x90.org writes:
> It seems a simple patch for such a harrowing journey through kernel
> internals trying to pinpoint this.
>
They always do, don't they.
> If a client application (ie: not arlad) opens the /dev/nnpfs0 device
> before daemon-ifying itself, the (chan->proc) pointer will point into
> the process struct from the starting shell.
>
Any particular reason why one would do such a thing?
> + if (chan->proc == NULL || chan->proc != nnpfs_get_proc(uiop))
> chan->proc = nnpfs_get_proc(uiop);
>
Apple demands that procs are released too. It's not hard at all, I just
want to understand why we want this.
thanks
/t
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