Messages in this thread | | | From | "Manfred Spraul" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: 8139too: defunct threads | Date | Sat, 14 Apr 2001 23:43:52 +0200 |
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From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > > That has an implicit race, a zombie can always appear as we are execing init. > I think init wants fixing > Rod, could you boot again with the unpatched kernel and send a sigchild to init?
#kill -CHLD 1
If I understand the init code correctly the sigchild handler reaps all zombies, but probably the signal got lost because the children died before the parent was created ;-)
-- Manfred
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