Re: [PATCH 3/8] job control: Fix ptracer wait(2) hang and explainnotask_error clearing

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 03/21, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 03/08, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >
> > +		if (likely(!ptrace) || (wo->wo_flags & WCONTINUED))
> > +			wo->notask_error = 0;
>
> I don't understand this part. Suppose that this task is not traced and
> its real parent does do_wait(WEXITED). We shouldn't return -ECHLD in
> this case (EXIT_ZOMBIE && delay_group_leader()).

Argh. please ingnore this part. I misread the code above.

> If the task is traced and debugger does do_wait(WEXITED) we should not
> return -ECHLD too.

Still true, or I missed something again...

Oleg.

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