Re: khubd zombie

Greg KH
2002-02-18T20:05:50Z

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