From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266042AbUGAQna (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:43:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266078AbUGAQna (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:43:30 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:49086 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266042AbUGAQn3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:43:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:43:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrea Arcangeli cc: Roland McGrath , Andreas Schwab , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: zombie with CLONE_THREAD In-Reply-To: <20040701162328.GK15086@dualathlon.random> Message-ID: References: <200407010706.i6176pTa019793@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20040701162328.GK15086@dualathlon.random> 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 On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > That's why I admitted it can be considered a feature and not a > completely worthless effort to leave self-reaping tasks as zombies if > they're ptraced. Hey, if you both agree, I'm not going to complain. Applied. Linus