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    wait: swap EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD to hide EXIT_TRACE from user-space · ad86622b
    Oleg Nesterov authored
    get_task_state() uses the most significant bit to report the state to
    user-space, this means that EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_TRACE->EXIT_DEAD transition
    can be noticed via /proc as Z -> X -> Z change.  Note that this was
    possible even before EXIT_TRACE was introduced.
    
    This is not really bad but imho it make sense to hide EXIT_TRACE from
    user-space completely.  So the patch simply swaps EXIT_ZOMBIE and
    EXIT_DEAD, this way EXIT_TRACE will be seen as EXIT_ZOMBIE by user-space.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
    Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
    Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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