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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: unkillable process
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Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> It's really bad when a task group leader exits.
> The process becomes unkillable.
> 
> This is with the 2.6.8-rc1 kernel.

That's a pretty old kernel.

> ...
> Here's the code:

I can't get it to misbehave with current -linus.  Can you upgrade and retest?