Re: [maybe fixed.. i hope i hope i hope] Re: snipe hunt

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 18:56:09 EST


On Fri, 5 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > That has an unpleasant side effect: you won't see zombies in ps output.
> > At all. If that's OK - no problems, we can do it much simpler and protect
> > only the moment of setting PF_EXITING. If it is not...
>
> We need to see zombies. Sysadmins depend on being able to see zombies to
> figure out why the process tree is full, and what blew up.

Precisely. The real question being: what stuff do we actually need to keep
so that we could see them?

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