Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:18:43 -0800 | From | Matthew Dharm <> | Subject | Re: Daemonize() should re-parent its caller |
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He's looking at the "zombie-thread on unload" problem, which is different from the "long delay at shutdown" problem.
Matt
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:58:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:54:44AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > If the parent is init or another user process, we can reasonably > > expect that the zombie will be reaped eventually. But what if the > > parent is another kernel thread? This situation arises in the USB > > mass-storage device driver, where the device manager and scsi > > error-handler threads are spawned (indirectly) by the khubd kernel > > thread. > > What problem are you seeing with the khubd and USB mass-storage kernel > threads? There is a patch in the most recent kernel versions that > slightly modifies the usb-storage kernel thread logic, supposedly to fix > a problem that people were having under very long scsi timeouts. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver
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