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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:45:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On 4 Apr 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> 
> Eh, maybe - what about all the code that sets non-running before putting
> itself on a wait queue?

In most cases that code will call a schedule itself.

Of course, we might make just ZOMBIE a special case, but in general I
think it's simply absolutely wrong for the preemption to change task
internal data structures on its own.

		Linus

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