Re: Behavior under swap catastrophe?

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
17 Feb 1997 17:56:04 +0100


Snow Cat <snowcat@netgate.net> wrote:
> > working directories remain in zombie state, and umount fails.

> Why does a zombie process need a working directory? :)

Because its task_struct is still active and the "root" and "pwd"
inodes of its fs_struct therefore valid (i.e. in use).

olaf

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