RE: [BUG?] 2.6.x (2.6.13) - new signals not being delivered to a terminating (PF_EXITING) process.

["Kilau, Scott" <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>]

> Once a process in in the 'Z' state it should not receive any
> signals. Its signal handlers are already gone. It's just a
> snippit of sys_exit code that remains. If the process truly
> is in the 'Z' state, its input/output/error file-descriptors
> should have already been closed so the time-out from the
> shutdown should have already happened.

Hi Dick,

You are right, its not a zombie.

The process is held up in "drain" in the tty close of the
processes stdin (/dev/ttyS0).
(I assumed brackets in ps -ef meant zombies, but that's wrong)

I added some code to make a short timeout in the "tty close" part of
the driver, then check the values of:

current->signal->shared_pending.list.next
current->signal->shared_pending.list.prev

They *do* change, when I send the process (date) a signal.

The kernel just isn't waking up the driver's "wait" to let it
know that there are signals pending.

Also, why did this work under 2.4?

This is why I was wondering if this was intentional, or was just an
oversight...

Thanks!
Scott
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