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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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