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Re: kernel command line


From: Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Subject: Re: kernel command line
Date: 15 May 2001 15:01:58 -0700
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Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> Yes, this would work out the way you described it.  How about Mach keeping
> track of the task hierarchy?  I am not sure how exactly this would need to
> be implemented.  Mach could keep a pointer to the parent task in the task
> structure.  Someone having the host control port (?) could extract a send
> right to this parent task port. Proc can match this (? does proc keep a
> send right to every task? Have to check.).

My idea is that a suitably privileged task could, given a port for
task T, get a port for its parent.  If the parent is dead, it gets
null. 

> However, I am not sure what happens if the parent task dies.
> If proc keeps a send right, it will become a dead name.  Then we just have
> to make sure that we will return the same dead name on request.

There is no such thing as "the same dead name".




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