Re: How to avoid zombie kernel threads?

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:06:50AM +0200, Jarno Paananen wrote:

> http://hardsid.sourceforge.net/ is someone is actually interested)
> that uses a kernel thread to do the actual work asynchronously from
> rest of the world. The thread is created when opening a character
> device and exits when the device is closed.

read frey's guide and look at some real code to see how to do this.

Think you are missing a reparent_to_init(). I don't know if bleeding
2.5 includes this in daemonize() yet.

You should really have asked this on kernelnewbies mailing list btw

http://www.kernelnewbies.org/

regards
john

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