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Kernel: Add a comment explaining an alternate path in Process::exec()

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I had to look at this for a moment before I realized that sys$execve()
and the spawning of /bin/SystemServer at boot are taking two different
paths out of exec().

Add a comment to help the next person looking at it. :^)
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Andreas Kling 2021-09-07 01:32:54 +02:00
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@ -848,6 +848,9 @@ KResult Process::exec(String path, Vector<String> arguments, Vector<String> envi
VERIFY_NOT_REACHED(); VERIFY_NOT_REACHED();
} }
// NOTE: This code path is taken in the non-syscall case, i.e when the kernel spawns
// a userspace process directly (such as /bin/SystemServer on startup)
if (prev_flags & 0x200) if (prev_flags & 0x200)
sti(); sti();
Processor::leave_critical(); Processor::leave_critical();