Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2001 03:19:18 -0600 | Subject | Re: Multithreaded core dumps (CLONE_THREAD and elf) |
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On Aug 30, 2001 10:16 +0200, Terje Eggestad wrote: > THere is a CLONE_THREAD flag to clone() that sets up a linked list thru > all the procs (shared VM or not) that in 2.4.3 that I currently run > don't seem to be ready for general use, managed to get this: > te 31504 31504 0 10:03 pts/0 00:00:00 [clone2 <defunct>] > te 31505 31504 0 10:03 pts/0 00:00:00 [clone2 <defunct>] > > Where a zombie is waiting for the parent to receive it's SIGCHLD, but > it's its own parent. Kinda cute, guess Its time to reboot....
I'm pretty sure Linus had a patch for this in 2.4.7 or so, which reparented the thread to init, so it would be reaped on exit.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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