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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, chas williams (contractor) wrote:

> 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.

But if that parent has gone away, how do we know what its parent was?