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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Patrik Weiskircher <me@justp.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: khubd zombie
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:00:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020218200041.GE20284@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1014039193.523.42.camel@dev1lap> <20020218181417.GA19992@kroah.com> <1014062182.608.36.camel@pat>
In-Reply-To: <1014062182.608.36.camel@pat>

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:56:22PM +0100, Patrik Weiskircher wrote:
> 
> I tried it with 2.4.5, 2.4.12, 2.4.17.
> And I have to kill everything except init.
> I need a "clean" system.

What?  You want to also get rid of keventd, ksoftirqd_CPUX, kswapd, and
others and expect your machine to still work properly?

> Anyway, I don't think that it should behave like that.
> Killing something from userspace should not affect the kernel, or did I
> miss something?

This is a _kernel_ thread, not a userspace program running.

> I fixed it, it works, patch file attached.

And what happened to your USB devices when you kill khubd after applying
your patch?

The reparent_to_init() seems like the better thing to do.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-18 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-18 13:33 khubd zombie Patrik Weiskircher
2002-02-18 18:14 ` Greg KH
2002-02-18 19:56   ` Patrik Weiskircher
2002-02-18 20:00     ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-02-18 20:16       ` Patrik Weiskircher
2002-02-18 20:43         ` Greg KH
2002-02-18 21:05           ` Patrik Weiskircher
2002-02-18 18:21 ` John Levon
2002-02-22  1:19 ` Andrew Rodland

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