Re: [maybe fixed.. i hope i hope i hope] Re: snipe hunt

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 18:58:21 EST


On Thu, 4 May 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > That has an unpleasant side effect: you won't see zombies in ps output.
> > At all. If that's OK - no problems, we can do it much simpler and protect
> > only the moment of setting PF_EXITING. If it is not...
>
> Hmm. Zombies definitely need to be visible.

Yup. Thus the variant with selective dropping the /proc/<pid>/* contents:
part near the entry into do_exit(), part at the point when we are _really_
done with the sucker.

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