Re: gzip zombie / spawned from init

[Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>]

Thanks for the fast answer, Bart.

Bart Hartgers [Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:54:14PM +0200]:
> Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > [zombie in your head...]
> 
> Yes and no. If a parent exits before its child, the child is reparented 
> to init. loadkeys probably doesn't wait properly for gzip to finish.

Ok, so I'll try to contact the loadkeys developer.

> >cinit forks() loadkeys and does waitpid() for it. There is no
> > loadkeys zombie, only gzip.
> 
> Use waitpid(-1,...) or wait(...) to wait on all childeren in your init. 
> gzip will become a child of cinit.

Well, wait waitpid(-1, ...) cannot be used, as there are many other
children (the system is booting up at the time the gzip process
becomes a zombie).

Still you cleared this issue for me.

Nico

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