Rod Stewart wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Using the 8139too driver, 0.9.15c, we have noticed that we get a defunct
> thread for each device we have; if the driver is built into the kernel.
> If the driver is built as a module, no defunct threads appear.
What is the parent PID for the defunct tasks? zero?
<slaps head> swapper doesn't know how to reap children, and
AFAIK there's no way for a kernel thread to fully clean itself
up. This is always done by the parent.
ho-hum. Jeff, I think the best fix here is to bite the
bullet and write kernel_daemon(), which will delegate
thread creation to keventd, which is the only thing
we have which reaps zombies. Any better ideas?
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