Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269990AbUJNHmZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:42:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269991AbUJNHmZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:42:25 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:2471 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269990AbUJNHmX (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:42:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:40:28 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: unkillable process Message-Id: <20041014004028.0da71f0c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1097731227.2666.11264.camel@cube> References: <1097731227.2666.11264.camel@cube> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 558 Lines: 19 Albert Cahalan wrote: > > It's really bad when a task group leader exits. > The process becomes unkillable. > > This is with the 2.6.8-rc1 kernel. That's a pretty old kernel. > ... > Here's the code: I can't get it to misbehave with current -linus. Can you upgrade and retest? - 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/