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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Rod Stewart" <stewart@dystopia.lab43.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 23:43:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001b01c0c52c$03070b00$5517fea9@local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14oVAp-0005Nj-00@the-village.bc.nu>

From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>
> That has an implicit race, a zombie can always appear as we are
execing init.
> I think init wants fixing
>
Rod, could you boot again with the unpatched kernel and send a sigchild
to init?

#kill -CHLD 1

If I understand the init code correctly the sigchild handler reaps all
zombies, but probably the signal got lost because the children died
before the parent was created ;-)

--
    Manfred


  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-14 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-14 14:00 8139too: defunct threads Manfred Spraul
2001-04-14 16:21 ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-14 17:33   ` [PATCH] " Manfred Spraul
2001-04-14 18:53     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-14 21:43       ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-04-15  5:08         ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-15 13:06           ` [new PATCH] " Manfred Spraul
2001-04-15 22:01             ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-16 17:00             ` Andrew Morton
2001-04-16 19:42               ` John Fremlin
2001-04-16 19:59                 ` Andrew Morton
2001-04-14 23:29       ` [PATCH] " Andreas Ferber

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