From: Bart Hartgers <bart@etpmod.phys.tue.nl>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gzip zombie / spawned from init
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:54:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42AEB756.2030809@etpmod.phys.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050614085436.GA1467@schottelius.org>
Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I wrote an init replacement (cinit), which is now in the beta-phase.
> The only problem I do have currently is that when calling
> 'loadkeys dvorak' directly from init (without a shell or anything)
> it will leave behind a gzip zombie (which was forked by loadkeys).
>
> Now my question is: Is that a problem of loadkeys or from my init
> and what could be the reasons that it's still there?
Not really a kernel issue but:
Yes and no. If a parent exits before its child, the child is reparented
to init. loadkeys probably doesn't wait properly for gzip to finish.
>
> cinit forks() loadkeys and does waitpid() for it. There is no
> loadkeys zombie, only gzip.
Use waitpid(-1,...) or wait(...) to wait on all childeren in your init.
gzip will become a child of cinit.
Groeten,
Bart
--
Bart Hartgers - TUE Eindhoven - http://plasimo.phys.tue.nl/bart/contact/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-14 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-14 8:54 Nico Schottelius
2005-06-14 10:54 ` Bart Hartgers [this message]
2005-06-14 11:03 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-06-14 11:32 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-06-14 12:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-14 16:07 Chad Kitching
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