Re: [PATCH] cleanup ptrace stops and remove notify_parent

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> That's a different implementation than what we've got now.  Feel free to
> try to make it work.  Linus has talked before about treating the state as a
> bitmask, but the code is not actually written that way now.  

The state itself shouldn't be a bitmask, but the _values_ get used for 
masks in quite a few places (ie "task->state & (TASK_DEAD | TASK_ZOMBIE)").

		Linus
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