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Re: What is this function doing

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Subject: Re: What is this function doing
From: Brandon Niemczyk <bniemczyk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:50:05 -0500
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what would be a better way to find the init task?


On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:43:19 +0000, Jon Masters <jonmasters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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