Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On 4 Apr 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> >
> > Eh, maybe - what about all the code that sets non-running before putting
> > itself on a wait queue?
>
> In most cases that code will call a schedule itself.
>
> Of course, we might make just ZOMBIE a special case, but in general I
> think it's simply absolutely wrong for the preemption to change task
> internal data structures on its own.
>
Amen!
> Linus
>
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