Christoph Hellwig writes: > The first question is obviously, is this really something we want? > spawning kernel thread on demand without reaping them properly seems > quite dangerous. What specifically has to be done to reap a kernel thread? Are you concerned about the number of threads, or about having zombies hanging around? Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html