Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:20:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:19:57 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:43502 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:19:53 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <3AD5F9FE.9A49374D@uow.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3AD5F9FE.9A49374D@uow.edu.au> To: Andrew Morton Cc: Rod Stewart , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: 8139too: defunct threads Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:19:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20905.987113981@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -- dwmw2 - 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/