From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
Cc: Rod Stewart <stewart@dystopia.lab43.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: Re: 8139too: defunct threads
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:19:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20905.987113981@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AD5F9FE.9A49374D@uow.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3AD5F9FE.9A49374D@uow.edu.au> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104121336040.31024-100000@dystopia.lab43.org>
andrewm@uow.edu.au said:
> ho-hum. Jeff, I think the best fix here is to bite the bullet and
> write kernel_daemon(), which will delegate thread creation to keventd,
> which is the only thing we have which reaps zombies. Any better
> ideas?
Yes. Let init do it, as God intended. Why reap threads in the kernel when
they could just reparent themselves as children of pid 1?
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-12 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-12 17:58 8139too: defunct threads Rod Stewart
2001-04-12 18:54 ` Andrew Morton
2001-04-12 19:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-12 20:18 ` Andrew Morton
2001-04-12 21:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-12 19:37 ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-12 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2001-04-12 21:23 ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-12 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2001-04-12 21:33 ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-13 20:16 ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-12 22:19 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2001-04-14 14:00 Manfred Spraul
2001-04-14 16:21 ` Rod Stewart
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