Re: [PATCH] use pid_alive in proc_pid_status

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 
> What do you think? Are you aware of further instances where p->pid is 
> still used to check if a thread is alive?

Looks good, except I hate how you have a function that does a single 
pointer derefence and a test.

There are cases where inline functions bloat up the code, but there are 
cases where a function call is bigger than the function body. This seems 
to be one of them.

		Linus
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