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SubjectRe: 2.2.0-pre7 bug report
Hi,

On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Max wrote:

> # kill -9 `pidof kswapd`
> sends kswapd in Zombie status.
> Is this intentional?

I guess it's not exactly intentional but certainly to be expected. The kernel
wouldn't be expecting you to kill kswapd (presumably only root can do this :),
or indeed for kswapd to complete at all, so it's unlikely to have another
thread waiting around to read its exit code..

Cheers,
Steve

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