On 05-Apr-01 Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:41:29 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
> 
>> As a safety check we should probably zero the pid right before zfree()'ing a
>> proc in wait() however, so that a stale pointer to a free'd process doesn't
>> have a valid pid if we do this.
> 
> Should not be necessary.  Here is the logic:

Ah, forgot about the p_stat check.

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