Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:54:14 +0200 | From | Bart Hartgers <> | Subject | Re: gzip zombie / spawned from init |
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Nico Schottelius wrote: > Hello! > > I wrote an init replacement (cinit), which is now in the beta-phase. > The only problem I do have currently is that when calling > 'loadkeys dvorak' directly from init (without a shell or anything) > it will leave behind a gzip zombie (which was forked by loadkeys). > > Now my question is: Is that a problem of loadkeys or from my init > and what could be the reasons that it's still there?
Not really a kernel issue but:
Yes and no. If a parent exits before its child, the child is reparented to init. loadkeys probably doesn't wait properly for gzip to finish.
> > cinit forks() loadkeys and does waitpid() for it. There is no > loadkeys zombie, only gzip.
Use waitpid(-1,...) or wait(...) to wait on all childeren in your init. gzip will become a child of cinit.
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