On 08/05, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > A zombie must have a valid ->signal, we are going to release it and > > __exit_signal() starts with BUG_ON(!sig). > > Yes, this is safe because it's after the EXIT_DEAD check under tasklist_lock.
Yes thanks, the changelog could be better. We "own" this child (it was us sho set EXIT_DEAD), nobody can release it including the child itself (it already passed exit_notify()). We could even drop tasklist, but we need ->parent->sighand->siglock. Oleg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
