Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262012AbUKJREv (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:04:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262016AbUKJREv (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:04:51 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:2223 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262012AbUKJREl (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:04:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 09:04:28 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Dinakar Guniguntala cc: Sripathi Kodi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roland McGrath , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] do_wait fix for 2.6.10-rc1 In-Reply-To: <20041110143518.GC4502@in.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <418B4E86.4010709@in.ibm.com> <418F826C.2060500@in.ibm.com> <20041109143118.GA8961@in.ibm.com> <20041110143518.GC4502@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 512 Lines: 16 On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Dinakar Guniguntala wrote: > > How about if we set the flag only in the cases when the exit state is not > either TASK_DEAD or TASK_ZOMBIE. Why TASK_DEAD? We can't reap such a process anyway, no? But yes, I agree with the approach. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/