Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: 8139too: defunct threads | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:19:41 +0100 |
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andrewm@uow.edu.au said: > ho-hum. Jeff, I think the best fix here is to bite the bullet and > write kernel_daemon(), which will delegate thread creation to keventd, > which is the only thing we have which reaps zombies. Any better > ideas?
Yes. Let init do it, as God intended. Why reap threads in the kernel when they could just reparent themselves as children of pid 1?
-- dwmw2
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