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diff --git a/guix/build/syscalls.scm b/guix/build/syscalls.scm
index b2871c3c10..39bcffd516 100644
--- a/guix/build/syscalls.scm
+++ b/guix/build/syscalls.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2014-2023 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2014-2024 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2015 David Thompson <davet@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
@@ -765,27 +765,50 @@ current process."
(list (strerror err))
(list err)))))))
-(define (kernel? pid)
- "Return #t if PID designates a \"kernel thread\" rather than a normal
-user-land process."
- (let ((stat (call-with-input-file (format #f "/proc/~a/stat" pid)
- (compose string-tokenize read-string))))
- ;; See proc.txt in Linux's documentation for the list of fields.
- (match stat
- ((pid tcomm state ppid pgrp sid tty_nr tty_pgrp flags min_flt
- cmin_flt maj_flt cmaj_flt utime stime cutime cstime
- priority nice num_thread it_real_value start_time
- vsize rss rsslim
- (= string->number start_code) (= string->number end_code) _ ...)
- ;; Got this obscure trick from sysvinit's 'killall5' program.
- (and (zero? start_code) (zero? end_code))))))
+(define (linux-process-flags pid) ;copied from the Shepherd
+ "Return the process flags of @var{pid} (or'd @code{PF_} constants), assuming
+the Linux /proc file system is mounted; raise a @code{system-error} exception
+otherwise."
+ (call-with-input-file (string-append "/proc/" (number->string pid)
+ "/stat")
+ (lambda (port)
+ (define line
+ (read-string port))
+
+ ;; Parse like systemd's 'is_kernel_thread' function.
+ (let ((offset (string-index line #\)))) ;offset past 'tcomm' field
+ (match (and offset
+ (string-tokenize (string-drop line (+ offset 1))))
+ ((state ppid pgrp sid tty-nr tty-pgrp flags . _)
+ (or (string->number flags) 0))
+ (_
+ 0))))))
+
+;; Per-process flag defined in <linux/sched.h>.
+(define PF_KTHREAD #x00200000) ;I am a kernel thread
+
+(define (linux-kernel-thread? pid)
+ "Return true if @var{pid} is a Linux kernel thread."
+ (= PF_KTHREAD (logand (linux-process-flags pid) PF_KTHREAD)))
+
+(define pseudo-process?
+ (if (string-contains %host-type "linux")
+ (lambda (pid)
+ "Return true if @var{pid} denotes a \"pseudo-process\" such as a Linux
+kernel thread rather than a \"regular\" process. A pseudo-process is one that
+may never terminate, even after sending it SIGKILL---e.g., kthreadd on Linux."
+ (catch 'system-error
+ (lambda ()
+ (linux-kernel-thread? pid))
+ (const #f)))
+ (const #f)))
(define (processes)
"Return the list of live processes."
(sort (filter-map (lambda (file)
(let ((pid (string->number file)))
(and pid
- (not (kernel? pid))
+ (not (pseudo-process? pid))
pid)))
(scandir "/proc"))
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