kern/89528: [jail] impossible to kill a jail

Ed Schouten ed at fxq.nl
Thu Jan 4 21:37:48 UTC 2007


* Coleman Kane <zombyfork at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this behavior still occur if you set sysctl kern.pts.enable=1 ?

Well, I haven't tested that, but it should be fixed as well, because it
also calls make_dev_cred().

> Is this at all related to why I have been experiencing zombies left behind
> for any process that alloc's its own tty (such as gnome-terminal [actually
> gnome-pty-helper])? If I CTRL-D to end a gnome-terminal session, it will
> hang all of the gnome-terminals I have open and I typically have to reboot
> to clear out the zombies that remain. I can't open any more apps that use
> gnome-pty-helper to allocate ttys unless I attempt to kill it and start it
> anew (and I am not even completely sure if that works).

As far as I know, this is unrelated. The patch in my previous mail only
fixes device node creation in jails.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
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