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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Daemonize() should re-parent its caller
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:58:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020123205804.GA15259@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0201231050440.687-100000@ida.rowland.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0201231050440.687-100000@ida.rowland.org>

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:54:44AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> If the parent is init or another user process, we can reasonably
> expect that the zombie will be reaped eventually.  But what if the
> parent is another kernel thread?  This situation arises in the USB
> mass-storage device driver, where the device manager and scsi
> error-handler threads are spawned (indirectly) by the khubd kernel
> thread.

What problem are you seeing with the khubd and USB mass-storage kernel
threads?  There is a patch in the most recent kernel versions that
slightly modifies the usb-storage kernel thread logic, supposedly to fix
a problem that people were having under very long scsi timeouts.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-23 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-23 15:54 Daemonize() should re-parent its caller Alan Stern
2002-01-23 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-23 20:28   ` Alan Stern
2002-01-23 20:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-01-23 21:18   ` Matthew Dharm
2002-01-27 19:48 ` Alan Cox

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