Subject: Re: your mail
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/02/1998 11:28:31
>
> - exit2() places the proc on the deadproc list, and wakes up the
> reaper.
>
> - Reaper runs, freeing the vmspace and stack of all processes
> on the deadproc list. Once the vmspace and stack are freed,
> the process is put on the zombproc list, and the parent
> notified that the dead process has exited.
>
Can this cause more than one process at once to be on the deadproc list?
This will give a slight problem because of the stack page switched to
when exiting must be one per exiting process; seems to be so for most
architectures anyway.
-- Ragge