Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:43:01 -0800 (PST) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] copy_process: fix CLONE_PARENT && ->exit_signal interaction |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > But I can not understand that reason... As I said, the thread does not > go away if exit_signal == 0. Yes, the parent does not see it has a new > zombie, but why this is useful?
Well, I know that people actually do this, because I found it in google code search. Maybe it was just a test program or something. So I didn't really care about "useful vs not", because I only care about "is it done vs not".
People do tons of useless things. That's the only way to explain Dr Phil.
Linus
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