Re: Task destruction

[Roland McGrath]

> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 06:29:54PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I don't know enough about what the task server does to not be clueless here.
> > What does the task server do that would need privilege? 
> 
> Creating and killing tasks (address spaces).

Really?  I don't see why that should be privileged except that it can
allocate kernel resources.  But can't creating threads also allocate kernel
resources?  Or do you have to allocate all them up-front with the task and
hard-limit the number of threads you can create?