[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] 2.6 kernel support anytime soon?Workarounds?

[chas williams (contractor)]

In message <40A13854.5513A0A9@anl.gov>,"Douglas E. Engert" writes:
>code in effect shadow the process table (or task_struct), so when a request
>is needed if it has not seen this process before, it will look at the parent 
>and on up the chain to find a process it has seen that has a "PAG".

i have given this some thought.  i am wondering if we can follow
p_opptr, pointers to (original) parent process?  p_opptr doesnt seem to
be reset by setsid or other similar operations.