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Subject: Re: [3/4] exit_thread: accept a task parameter to be exited
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On Thu, 2016-24-03 at 12:58:13 UTC, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> We need to call exit_thread from copy_process in a fail path.  So make
> it accept task_struct as a parameter.

If I'm counting right 22 of those are empty functions, so would it be a good
clean up to make it optional first?

cheers