Bug#256916: More info

[Matt Kern <matt.kern@undue.org>]

I am going to eat my own words now...

The process which bound the original tcp socket 2345 is still on
the system as a zombie child of init.  Presumably its parent exited and
for whatever reason init failed to reap the reparented child when it
exited.  This indicates that there could be a race condition in init,
but there is still the possibility of a kernel bug.  Is there any
mechanism for asking init to scan/reap any zombies?  Respawning init
does nothing.

To make matters more frustrating, ps doesn't display zombie processes
when called with -L or -T.

Interestingly, it is still possible to establish a connection to the
wedged socket.  All input is queued as presumably is the connection for
acceptance by the zombie...

Regards,
Matt

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Matt Kern
http://www.undue.org/