Re: fix for unkillable zombie task

[Andreas Schwab]

David Mosberger <davidm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I got a bugreport where a ptrace'd task would end up in an unkillable
> zombie state if the (real) parent of the task happened to ignore
> SIGCHLD.  The patch below should fix the problem.  I attached a
> self-contained test program.  If the bug is present, you should
> see:
>
>  FAILURE: child PID seems to be still around!
>
> at the end (and there will be an unkillable zombie).

Could this be the same problem as discussed in the thread at
<http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108857537300002&r=1&w=2>?

Andreas.

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