Re: Problem with exiting threads under NPTL

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 07:25, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Hi,
>   several times one of our threads ended up as ZOMBIE and
> nobody wants to pick him up - even init ignores it. Inspection
> of kernel structures revealed that task's exit code is 0,
> exit_signal is -1, ptrace is 0 and state is 8 (ZOMBIE).
> 

>    So if some process ignores SIGCHLD, and spawns child process 
> which creates additional thread, and main thread in child exits 
> before child it created, you'll end up with immortal zombie.
> 

I can confirm this behavior here, although I must admit I do not
know if the sample code is legal.  Latest glibc from cvs + bk kernel.


Cheers,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer

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