Messages in this thread |  | | From | Olaf Titz <> | Subject | Re: Behavior under swap catastrophe? | Date | 17 Feb 1997 17:56:04 +0100 |
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Snow Cat <snowcat@netgate.net> wrote: > > working directories remain in zombie state, and umount fails.
> Why does a zombie process need a working directory? :)
Because its task_struct is still active and the "root" and "pwd" inodes of its fs_struct therefore valid (i.e. in use).
olaf -- ___ Olaf.Titz@inka.de or @{stud,informatik}.uni-karlsruhe.de ____ __ o <URL:http://www.inka.de/~bigred/> <IRC:praetorius> __/<_ >> Just as long as the wheels keep on turning round _)>(_)______________ I will live for the groove 'til the sun goes down << ____
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