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SubjectRe: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:40:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett took 89 lines to write:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 15:13, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >
> >Yes it does - the problem is that not all resources are managed
> >by processes. Some allocations are managed by drivers, so a driver
> >bug can get the device into a unuseable state _and_ tie up the
> >process(es) that were using the driver at the moment.
>
> This from my viewpoint, is wrong. The kernel, and only the kernel
> should be ultimately responsible for handing out resources, and
> reclaiming at its convienience.

This might just be semantics, but device drivers are part of the kernel.

Kurt
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