Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebied...@xmission.com): > The thread_group_leader of any process may not be reaped until all of > the other threads are dead. All of the other threads of a > multi-threaded process self reap when they exit.
Ah, I see. Thanks. Then your patch does sound like the safest solution. Haven't tested yet (hd failure stands in my way) though I can't see how it could not fix the bug I was seeing. -serge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/