Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:33 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] Defunct event/0 processes under 2.6.0-test6-mm1 |
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* Bradley Chapman (kakadu_croc@yahoo.com) wrote: > He is right. I reverted call_usermodehelper-retval-fix-2.patch and everything > works again. Why would that break the source of events/0 and hotplug?
That patch changes the SIGCHLD handler for kernel threads that are started via wait_for_helper(). These threads are cloned from keventd (hence events/0 as the process name), and they call hotplug. The child is not being reaped properly.
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