On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:55:06PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > The first question is obviously, is this really something we want? > > spawning kernel thread on demand without reaping them properly seems > > quite dangerous. > > What specifically has to be done to reap a kernel thread? Are you > concerned about the number of threads, or about having zombies hanging > around?
I'm mostly concerned about number of threads and possible leakage of threads. Linas already explained it's not a problem in this case, so it's covered. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
