* Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> wrote: > Probably it is I who missed something :) > > But why can't we do both changes? I think it is just ugly to use init > to reap the kernel thread. Ok, wait4() can find zombie quickly if we > do the ->children split. But /sbin/init could be swapped out, we still > need to deliver SIGCHLD, etc. > > And I personally agree with Linus, it is nice to hide the kernel > threads from /sbin/init (or whatever) completely. yeah, they should all be made auto-reap - nobody is really interested in their wait4()-driven completion. (any completion they do is via other mechanisms) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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