From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:38:46 +0000 (-0700) Subject: wait: swap EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD to hide EXIT_TRACE from user-space X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~57^2~61 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ad86622b478eaafdc25b74237df82b10fce6326d;p=pandora-kernel.git wait: swap EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD to hide EXIT_TRACE from user-space get_task_state() uses the most significant bit to report the state to user-space, this means that EXIT_ZOMBIE->EXIT_TRACE->EXIT_DEAD transition can be noticed via /proc as Z -> X -> Z change. Note that this was possible even before EXIT_TRACE was introduced. This is not really bad but imho it make sense to hide EXIT_TRACE from user-space completely. So the patch simply swaps EXIT_ZOMBIE and EXIT_DEAD, this way EXIT_TRACE will be seen as EXIT_ZOMBIE by user-space. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Jan Kratochvil Cc: Michal Schmidt Cc: Al Viro Cc: Lennart Poettering Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed