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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Christoph Hellwig writes:

> The first question is obviously, is this really something we want?
> spawning kernel thread on demand without reaping them properly seems
> quite dangerous.

What specifically has to be done to reap a kernel thread?  Are you
concerned about the number of threads, or about having zombies hanging
around?

Paul.