Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:00:41 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: khubd zombie |
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:56:22PM +0100, Patrik Weiskircher wrote: > > I tried it with 2.4.5, 2.4.12, 2.4.17. > And I have to kill everything except init. > I need a "clean" system.
What? You want to also get rid of keventd, ksoftirqd_CPUX, kswapd, and others and expect your machine to still work properly?
> Anyway, I don't think that it should behave like that. > Killing something from userspace should not affect the kernel, or did I > miss something?
This is a _kernel_ thread, not a userspace program running.
> I fixed it, it works, patch file attached.
And what happened to your USB devices when you kill khubd after applying your patch?
The reparent_to_init() seems like the better thing to do.
thanks,
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