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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 19:59:58 +0800
From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Philip Wernersbach <philip.wernersbach@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Detecting runnable process?
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On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:39:16PM -0400, Philip Wernersbach wrote:
>I'm writing some kernel code that given a task's task_struct must
>decide if it is runnable, and hasn't crashed or exited. So far here's
>what I've come up with:
>
>struct task_struct *my_task;
>... snip ...
>if(likely(my_task != NULL && pid_alive(my_task) == true)) { return my_task; }
>
>Is this correct?
>

Yes to me, you can also check the functions which call pid_alive() in kernel.