Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:41:52 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] use pid_alive in proc_pid_status |
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > +int pid_alive(struct task_struct *p) > > +{ > > + return p->pids[PIDTYPE_PID].nr != 0; > > +} > > Can we not simply test p->exit_state? That's already done in quite a > few places and making things consistent would be nice.
as long as it's accessed from under the tasklist_lock, it ought to be fine to check for p->exit_state != EXIT_DEAD and dereference p->group_leader afterwards.
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