Re: sosend() and mbuf

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 00:03:40 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@xxxxxx> writes:
One thing that springs to mind is that kern_open() will dereference
td->td_proc, and AFAIK kthread_create() does not associate the thread
with a process.

This is wrong, and contradicts what I wrote further down. Just ignore
it.

IIRC, kernel threads don't have root.

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