Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:47:57 +0530 | From | "BALBIR SINGH" <> | Subject | Re: is reparent_to_init a good thing to do? |
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Rob Landley wrote:
>Or long lived kernel threads from short lived login sessions. > >You have a headless gateway box for your local subnet, administered via ssh >from a machine on the local subnet. So you SSH into the box through eth1, >ifconfig eth0 down back up again. If eth0 is an rtl8039too, this fires off a >kernel thread (which, before reparent_to_init, was parented to your ssh login >session). > >Now exit the login session. SSH does not exit until all the child processes >exit, so it just hangs there until you kill it from another console window... > >Rob > The question one can ask is what should a thread do then? Should reparent_to_init() send a SIGCHLD to the process/task that was parent before init became the parent? this should be easy to do, but will this fix the problem? I think so.
I can patch up something soon, if somebody is willing to test it.
comments, Balbir
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