Paul Mackerras writes:
> What was happening was rather interesting. The init process was stuck
> inside prepare_namespace(), in the while loop here (this is lines 749
> - 751 of init/main.c):
>
> pid = kernel_thread(do_linuxrc, "/linuxrc", SIGCHLD);
> if (pid>0)
> while (pid != wait(&i));
>
...
[ no signal delivery due to returning to kernel space, blah blah blah
:-) ]
For 2.4.x I'd just check for sigpending in this wait loop.
Longer term (ie. 2.5.x and onward) we should look into ideas like those
mentioned by Ben. I for one would not complain about seeing dhcp
getting removed from the kernel :-)
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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