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

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 19:56:09 EDT

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    On Fri, 5 May 2000, Alan Cox 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...
    >
    > We need to see zombies. Sysadmins depend on being able to see zombies to
    > figure out why the process tree is full, and what blew up.

    Precisely. The real question being: what stuff do we actually need to keep
    so that we could see them?

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