Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:32:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:32:21 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:17671 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:31:22 -0400 Subject: Re: 8139too: defunct threads To: andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:32:53 +0100 (BST) Cc: stewart@dystopia.lab43.org (Rod Stewart), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik) In-Reply-To: <3AD5F9FE.9A49374D@uow.edu.au> from "Andrew Morton" at Apr 12, 2001 11:54:54 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > swapper doesn't know how to reap children, and > AFAIK there's no way for a kernel thread to fully clean itself > up. This is always done by the parent. Make daemonize() move threads with parent 0 to parent 1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/