On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 18:36 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Kristis Makris wrote: > > >> To kill a kernel thread, you need to make __it__ call exit(). It must be
I was able to make it call do_exit(). However, even if I recompile a kernel to have kswapd issued a do_exit(), I still see from ps: root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 06:20 0:00 [kswapd <defunct>] Why isn't the task_struct for it gone ? - 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/
