Messages in this thread | | | From | "Martin Frey" <> | Subject | RE: kernel_thread vs. zombie | Date | Thu, 22 Mar 2001 06:32:52 -0800 |
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Hi,
>How do I force a kernel thread to always be a child of init and never >become a zombie ? > >I do call daemonize at the beginning of the thread (as it won't do >anything with files, signals or whatever), but that doesn't >seem to be enough. > Have a look at: http://www.scs.ch/~frey/linux/kernelthreads.html I have an example there that starts and stops kernel threads from init_module and never produced a zombie. I use the same code also to start threads from ioctl and it works for me. I tested it on UP and SMP, Intel and Alpha, 2.2.18 and 2.4.2.
Regards,
Martin
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