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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:10:44 +0000
Subject: Re: fix for unkillable zombie task
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David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:23:32 +0200, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> =
said:
>
>   Andreas> David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:
>   >>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:20:46 +0200, Andreas Schwab
>   >>>>>>> <schwab@suse.de> said:
>   >>
>   Andreas> Could this be the same problem as discussed in the thread
>   Andreas> at
>   Andreas> <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108857537300002&r=3D1&w=3D2>?
>
>   >>  It appears the "final" patch never made it into Linus' tree?
>
>   Andreas> And it appears to be a different issue, your patch doesn't
>   Andreas> fix that.
>
> Do you have a simple test-case?

See the thread.
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=108858649619256> has mine,
I don't know whether the one in
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=108866581316414> tests the
same.

Andreas.

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