Re: 8139too: defunct threads

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 17:19:41 EST


andrewm@uow.edu.au said:
> ho-hum. Jeff, I think the best fix here is to bite the bullet and
> write kernel_daemon(), which will delegate thread creation to keventd,
> which is the only thing we have which reaps zombies. Any better
> ideas?

Yes. Let init do it, as God intended. Why reap threads in the kernel when
they could just reparent themselves as children of pid 1?

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dwmw2

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