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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> My patch sounds much simpler to me, can you tell me what's the point of
> leaving ptrace enabled on a task that already executed do_exit?

To let the tracer look at the exit code?

How would you otherwise see what exit code the child exited with?

		Linus