I'm having problems bringing down interfaces. Each time I use ioctl to
change the IFF_UP flag a zombie process is created.
I noticed that since I upgraded to 2.4 whenever we create an interface a
new process is created and it's PPID is the creating process. But when I
try to bring it down that process doesn't die and no sigchld is received
by it's PPID. What's worse is that when I bring that interface up again
a new process is created.
Specifically I'm having problems using dhcpcd. After a few days this is
what I see with a ps:
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME
COMMAND
140 0 3278 1 9 0 780 388 116c8e S ? 0:05
/sbin/dhcpcd
044 0 7729 3278 9 0 0 0 11235d Z ? 0:00 \_
[eth0 <defuct>]
044 0 7732 3278 9 0 0 0 11235d Z ? 0:00 \_
[eth0 <defuct>]
044 0 8747 3278 9 0 0 0 11235d Z ? 0:00 \_
[eth0 <defuct>]
040 0 8765 3278 9 0 0 0 16baad SW ? 0:00 \_
[eth0]
What can I do about this? Is this not the right way to bring down an
interface?
Btw my current kernel is 2.4.7.
Thanks for the help.
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André Cruz
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