Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:21:05 -0700 | Subject | Re: fix for unkillable zombie task |
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>>>>> On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:20:46 +0200, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> said:
Andreas> Could this be the same problem as discussed in the thread at Andreas> <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108857537300002&r=1&w=2>?
It appears the "final" patch never made it into Linus' tree?
In any case, I'm certain the fix I submitted is needed, but I wouldn't claim I understand all of the exit path handling---it's become rather complicated with the NPTL-changes. For example, one thing I don't understand in forget_original_parent() is that it traverses the father->children list and then does the check:
if (father == p->real_parent) {
AFAIK, if "p" in on the father->children list, that implies that (p->real_parent == father). I suspect a typo here and "p->real_parent" should read "p->parent", but I'm sure whoever wrote this code must have tested it, so it's probably more likely I'm missing something.
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