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Re: What is this function doing

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:28:11 -0400, Brandon Niemczyk
<bniemczyk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm also a newbie, but It looks to me like it's just finding the init
> process and then printing some info about it.  Is this actually in the
> kernel or is it part of a tutorial of sorts?

It's an Intel specific module which displays some statistics as you
mentioned above. By accessing the thread_struct in this way it's
assuming this running on an x86 box. It's also possibly badly written
since it doesn't need to locate the init_task in this fashion.

Jon.

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