Eric W. Biederman wrote:

Oleg is coming from a different case where it was found that exiting kernel
threads were causing problems for nash when nash was run as init in an
initramfs.  While I think that case is likely a user space bug because
nash should check the pid from waidpid before assuming the process it
was waiting for returned.


Are you saying waitpid() (wait4) *with a pid specified* can return another pid? That definitely sounds like a bug.

        -hpa
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