Re: Patch: linux-2.5.8-pre1/kernel/exit.c change caused BUG() at

[Linus Torvalds]

On 4 Apr 2002, Robert Love wrote:
> 
> Eh, maybe - what about all the code that sets non-running before putting
> itself on a wait queue?

In most cases that code will call a schedule itself.

Of course, we might make just ZOMBIE a special case, but in general I
think it's simply absolutely wrong for the preemption to change task
internal data structures on its own.

		Linus