Hi,
When I am playing with clone system call, I found the case the cloned process
becomes the zombie which is not reaped because the PPID of the process is
set to itself. The test program are following.
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int stack[2048];
int
func(void *p)
{
exit(0);
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
clone(func, &stack[2048],
CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD,
NULL);
sleep(1);
exit(0);
}
Following patch fixes the bug, but I don't know this is correct. Can
someone please explain me why in forget_original_parent(), the parent of
processes in a thread group is set to another process in the thread
group?
diff -u -r linux.org/kernel/exit.c linux/kernel/exit.c
--- linux.org/kernel/exit.c Sat May 5 06:44:06 2001
+++ linux/kernel/exit.c Tue Jul 17 11:06:59 2001
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
/* We dont want people slaying init */
p->exit_signal = SIGCHLD;
p->self_exec_id++;
- p->p_opptr = reaper;
+ p->p_opptr = p == reaper ? child_reaper : reaper;
if (p->pdeath_signal) send_sig(p->pdeath_signal, p, 0);
}
}
-
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