On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 15:20 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > Because it's now defunct <Z>, a zombie, waiting for somebody to > reap its return status. You are almost there, you need to issue > the kernel equivalent of waitpid() (sys_waitpid) to grab that > status and throw it away. That's what the code I showed you > did when it would shut down and remove a module that had > a kernel thread.
It turns out I had to port reparent_to_init() from 2.4 to 2.2 to get it going. issuing a sys_wait4 wasn't enough. Apparently there was no way for the built-in kernel threads to exit at all in the first place. I hope 2.6 at least issues a reparent_to_init in kernel_thread(). - 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/
