Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:43:42 -0500 | From | Kurt Wall <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? |
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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.
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