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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:34:06 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Jarno Paananen <jpaana@s2.org>
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Subject: Re: How to avoid zombie kernel threads?
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On 30 Jan 2002 06:06:50 +0200
Jarno Paananen <jpaana@s2.org> wrote:

> Hi,

Good time of day.

> that uses a kernel thread to do the actual work asynchronously from
> rest of the world. The thread is created when opening a character
> device and exits when the device is closed.

Maybe you should use do_exit() at the end or complete_and_exit()?

> [daemonize() etc.]
...
      do_exit(0); // At least usb hub do it in such manner.
>     return 0;


> Thanks,

I hope this will help you.

> // Jarno
> -

	Evgeniy Polyakov ( s0mbre ).
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