help in block drivers

[Fawad Lateef]

On 10/24/06, Rahul <rahul.theraja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Can anyone tell me or send me some links that tells about the following
> functions:
>  daemonize, siginitsetinv , recalc_sigpending . Though i googled, i coildnt
> get much information on them.
>

daemonize() -----> is used to make kernel thread without any
user-space resources and in the last it makes thread/process child of
init. see comments above function definition
(http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/exit.c#373)


For understanding these sort of functions, just look for kernel_thread
documents on google and there you will find details. You can also get
information in comments above these functions definition. OR do search
for their usage in other places in kernel's code and you will get the
information related to that required function.


>  Thanks in adavance
>  Rahul
>
>


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Fawad Lateef