* Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probably it is I who missed something :)
>
> But why can't we do both changes? I think it is just ugly to use init
> to reap the kernel thread. Ok, wait4() can find zombie quickly if we
> do the ->children split. But /sbin/init could be swapped out, we still
> need to deliver SIGCHLD, etc.
>
> And I personally agree with Linus, it is nice to hide the kernel
> threads from /sbin/init (or whatever) completely.
yeah, they should all be made auto-reap - nobody is really interested in
their wait4()-driven completion. (any completion they do is via other
mechanisms)
Ingo
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