Re: CVS commit: [netbsd-1-5] src/sys/kern

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.lip6.fr@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:06:51AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> Why is this change being made?
> 
> There has always been a difference between what pfind() will look for,
> and what the code is sysctl_proc() will look for.
> So this change is changing the processes on which it is valid to do
> a SYSCTL_PROC.
> 
> In particular it makes sysclt_proc fail on zombies and neo-zombies.

I don't think you want to do a sysclt_proc() on zombies.
There are probably issues with the validity of the data being returned.

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