Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:46:17 +0000
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
        Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sure to wake reaper
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Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> The thread_group_leader of any process may not be reaped until all of
> the other threads are dead.  All of the other threads of a
> multi-threaded process self reap when they exit.

Ah, I see.  Thanks.

Then your patch does sound like the safest solution.  Haven't
tested yet (hd failure stands in my way) though I can't see
how it could not fix the bug I was seeing.

-serge
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