Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread_create

[Rusty Russell]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401042100510.15831-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write:
> Honestly I do not like playing with SIGCLD/waitpid for things that do not 
> concern real task exits. 

Well, it's pretty well documented.

> But I think it can be avoided, and actually I 
> don't know why I did not think about this before. We don't need to return 
> a struct task_struct* for kthread_create(). We can have:
> 
> struct kthread_struct {

Nope.  That's EXACTLY the kind of burden on the caller I wanted to
avoid if at all possible.

I just have decide whether to submit the wait one or the shared queue
one to Andrew....

Rusty.
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