Hi!
> >"A month of sundays ago Jos Visser wrote:"
> >> Let's extend the kernel with a /proc/nzombies feature that tells the
> >> current number of zombies. This is handy for system and network
> >> monitoring purposes. I did some homework and it is a quite trivial
> >
> >It's not at all daft. Why not put them in /proc/lost+found/ instead?
>
> <humor>
> Would I have to run mklost+found on /proc? Would it be a 12k directory
> like every other lost+found?
>
> And, would one have to run fsck.proc to get the zombies in there?
> </humor>
>
> Might I suggest a /proc/0/... tree of process information? (task[0] is
> the kernel after all.) It would help reduce the clutter in /proc.
> It
task[0] is idle and it would be VERY good if kernel reported it as
regular task. Just now, top can lie about idle (run make on
linux kernel), with /proc/0/ it would be reliable.
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