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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 03:18:14 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: kapm-idled : is this a bug?
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> I guess we should just put even normal idle thread to be visible in
> ps. It is cleaner design, anyway.

How about adding a flag to FLAGS, or a new letter in STATE in
/proc/pid/stat, to mean "this is an idle task"?

ps & top could easily by taught to recognise the flag.

-- Jamie

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