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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: "Rod Stewart" <stewart@dystopia.lab43.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 23:43:52 +0200
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From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>
> That has an implicit race, a zombie can always appear as we are
execing init.
> I think init wants fixing
>
Rod, could you boot again with the unpatched kernel and send a sigchild
to init?

#kill -CHLD 1

If I understand the init code correctly the sigchild handler reaps all
zombies, but probably the signal got lost because the children died
before the parent was created ;-)

--
    Manfred

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