tracehook breaks dhcpcd child processing

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Aug 19 2008 - 11:57:34 EST



[Rafael, one entry for the regression list]

Roland,

The opensuse 11.0 dhcpcd keeps accumulating zombies of its child scripts
with 2.6.27-rc*. 2.6.26 didn't have this problem. After one night I had more
zombies than normal processes.

I bisected it down to

commit 2b2a1ff64afbadac842bbc58c5166962cf4f7664
Author: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jul 25 19:45:54 2008 -0700

tracehook: death

causing the problem. Please fix.

-Andi
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