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Anomalies while handling p_nstopchild count
While investigating my problem with the zombie-that-wouldn't-die (see
thread on current-users), a couple of anomalies have appeared.
The first of these is reported by Robert Elz in his PR kern/50298 where
it appears that the wrong process's p_nstopchild count is being updated.
The second is just reported by me in PR kern/50300:
Shortly after setting the current (exitting) process's p_stat to SDEAD,
sys_exit() may reparent the process because of its (current) parent is
unwilling to wait() for its children to exit. Unfortunately,
proc_reparent() only adjusts the old and new parents' p_nstopchild
counts for SZOMB (or, in some cases, SSTOP) processes; since our
process is still SDEAD, the parents don't get updated.
I'm just now studying and learning this part of the kernel, so I don't
want to commit the changes suggested in these two PRs without having
someone else review and approve. Any volunteers? :)
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