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From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: John Fremlin <chief@bandits.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [new PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:59:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ADB4F19.D5124F40@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0104150100210.13758-100000@dystopia.lab43.org> <3AD99CE4.E1ED7090@colorfullife.com> <3ADB2522.6A0C579C@uow.edu.au>, Andrew Morton's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:00:18 -0700" <m2u23ows1j.fsf@boreas.yi.org.>

John Fremlin wrote:
> 
> 
> > So it seems that we must reparent the thread to init, and
> > make sure that it delivers SIGCHLD to init when it exits.
> 
> Sounds good. Why isn't SIGCHLD a stronger default anyway.

mm?   The caller gets to choose...

> [...]
> 
> > +     /* Set the exit signal to SIGCHLD so we signal init on exit */
> > +     if (this_task->exit_signal ! 0) {
> 
> Tyop.

aargh.  Thanks.  So that's what `cvs commit' does :)

The patch is OK with this converted into `!='.  But I'll
refresh and retest for tomorrow.  Still not very happy with
this approach though...

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-16 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-14 14:00 8139too: defunct threads Manfred Spraul
2001-04-14 16:21 ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-14 17:33   ` [PATCH] " Manfred Spraul
2001-04-14 18:53     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-14 21:43       ` Manfred Spraul
2001-04-15  5:08         ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-15 13:06           ` [new PATCH] " Manfred Spraul
2001-04-15 22:01             ` Rod Stewart
2001-04-16 17:00             ` Andrew Morton
2001-04-16 19:42               ` John Fremlin
2001-04-16 19:59                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-04-14 23:29       ` [PATCH] " Andreas Ferber

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