Re: Process id recycling and status of tasks

[Leonidas .]

> The obvious question which follows from above is what would be the correct
> way to determine whether a process is alive or not using pid_alive()? Using
> pid_task() does not seem correct and seemingly correct way looks unfeasible.
>

I guess, just checking task_struct->exit_state will be okay to do,
right? If exit
state is DEAD then the task is stale, might avoid using the reference counting
counterparts, right?

-Leo.
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