Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads | Date | Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:53:28 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Rod's init version (from RH 7.0) doesn't reap children that died before > it was started. Is that an init bug or should the kernel reap them > before the execve?
I would say thats an init bug
> The attached patch reaps all zombies before the execve("/sbin/init").
That has an implicit race, a zombie can always appear as we are execing init. I think init wants fixing
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