Re: [PATCH 1/2] copy_process: fix CLONE_PARENT && ->exit_signalinteraction

[Linus Torvalds]

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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