linux-kernel - tracehook breaks dhcpcd child processing

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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:57:22 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	roland@...hat.com, oleg@...sign.ru, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rjw@...k.pl
Subject: tracehook breaks dhcpcd child processing


[Rafael, one entry for the regression list]

Roland,

The opensuse 11.0 dhcpcd keeps accumulating zombies of its child scripts
with 2.6.27-rc*. 2.6.26 didn't have this problem. After one night I had more 
zombies than normal processes.

I bisected it down to

commit 2b2a1ff64afbadac842bbc58c5166962cf4f7664
Author: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 25 19:45:54 2008 -0700

    tracehook: death

causing the problem. Please fix.

-Andi
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