Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Mar 1998 18:18:51 +0200 (EET) | From | Nahshon <> | Subject | Re: kmod fix |
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> Sorry about the reply to my own message. > Damn, I realized after I hung up that the kmod code I presented causes > kmod to create little zombies of itself. I'm not really that strong on > kernel thread stuff... Could anyone know why this is happening? Thanks,
Greg, Another problem with your patch is in the call to interruptible_sleep_on in request_module. Any signal may wake the caller before modprobe has finished and a lot will be lost.
About zombies. The parent process (the main kmod thread) must wait for its children.
I'm working on a fix (based on your patch) that will fix these problems and also remove the limit on the number of request_modules served at the same time.
Itai
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