Re: zombie with CLONE_THREAD

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > 
> > 	list_for_each_safe(..)
> 
> You know, I never really looked at the macros, but seeing "_safe" here made
> me think that exactly this is what it's safe from.  That was obviously a
> silly thing to think, since it's clearly just safe from removing the list
> element during the iteration.

Right. I'd love to say it's "always safe", but obviously that is not 
technically possible. I agree that the name is misleading, and it is more 
about "can_delete" than about being "safe".

Anyway, I applied your/Andrea's patch (I happened to read email backwards 
this morning, so I saw Andrea's first).

		Linus
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