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Snow Cat  <snowcat@netgate.net> wrote:
> > working directories remain in zombie state, and umount fails.

> Why does a zombie process need a working directory? :)

Because its task_struct is still active and the "root" and "pwd"
inodes of its fs_struct therefore valid (i.e. in use).

olaf
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