Re: value of task p_pptr in task_alloc_security

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:34:30AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:24:31PM -0800, Tim Potter wrote:
> > I looked through fork.c and it looked like this was the case but I
> > wasn't very sure.  Unfortunately it looks like in this case the parent 
> > of current is also pointing to the grandfather.  )-:
> 
> You wouldn't want to look at current->p_ppt; you'd want to treat current
> itself as the parent. (Unless the clone(2) flag CLONE_PARENT has been

D'oh.  Of course - I took "dereference" to mean look at p_pptr.  When I
look at current it gives me the correct information.

Thanks,

Tim.
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