Re: gzip zombie / spawned from init

[Bart Hartgers]

Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I wrote an init replacement (cinit), which is now in the beta-phase.
> The only problem I do have currently is that when calling
> 'loadkeys dvorak' directly from init (without a shell or anything)
> it will leave behind a gzip zombie (which was forked by loadkeys).
>
> Now my question is: Is that a problem of loadkeys or from my init
> and what could be the reasons that it's still there?

Not really a kernel issue but:

Yes and no. If a parent exits before its child, the child is reparented 
to init. loadkeys probably doesn't wait properly for gzip to finish.

> cinit forks() loadkeys and does waitpid() for it. There is no
> loadkeys zombie, only gzip.

Use waitpid(-1,...) or wait(...) to wait on all childeren in your init. 
gzip will become a child of cinit.

Groeten,
Bart
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