Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 20:52:24 +1000 | From | Andrew Morton <> |
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Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > Hi! > > I was tracking down a problem with Debian installation freezing when doing > the ifconfig of the 8139too driver on 2.2.19 kernel, and found that this was > caused by 8139too for 2.2.19 not closing it's file descriptors. > > The original code by Jeff for the 2.4 series is ok, and searching for the > cause of the problem I have found a difference in the way rtl8139_thread > exits on both versions: > > 2.2 version: > up (&tp->thr_exited); > return 0; > > 2.4 version: > up_and_exit (&tp->thr_exited, 0); > > I think the problem must be there, not doing the do_exit on the 2.2 version, > but I may be wrong, can anybody look this up?
No, that's OK.
In 2.2, daemonize() does *not* do exit_files(). In 2.4 it does. I wonder why?
Try putting an
exit_files(current);
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