> Hi,
>
> I have a short question, but I lack the expertise to answer it.
>
> I am creating a thread in a custom system call, through a call to
> kernel_thread(). When this thread finishes, it becomes a zombie and
> persists until the user program which called the system call exits. Is
You want the thread to act like a daemon, then?
Did you do something like this:
tsk->pgrp = 1 ; /* detach from parent */
tsk->session = 1 ; /* now owned by "init" */
tsk->tty = NULL ; /* detach from any tty */
where "tsk" is a pointer to the task_struct representing the thread?
-bp
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