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Ingo Molnar authored
This implements the 'keep the initial thread around until every thread in the group exits' concept in a different, less intrusive way, along your suggestions. There is no exit_done completion handling anymore, freeing of the task is still done by wait4(). This has the following side-effect: detached threads/processes can only be started within a thread group, not in a standalone way. (This also fixes the bugs introduced by the ->exit_done code, which made it possible for a zombie task to be reactivated.) I've introduced the p->group_leader pointer, which can/will be used for other purposes in the future as well - since from now on the thread group leader is always existent. Right now it's used to notify the parent of the thread group leader from the last non-leader thread that exits [if the thread group leader is a zombie already].
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