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• Rev 2446 2007-06-01 17:47:46
• Author: jermar

• Log message:

  More efficient and simpler task termination.
  
  Based on the assumption, that after its creation, only the task itself can create more threads for itself,
  the last thread with userspace context to execute thread_exit() will perform futex and IPC cleanup. When
  the task has no threads, it is destroyed. Both the cleanup and destruction is controlled by reference
  counting.
  
  As for userspace threads, even though there could be a global garbage collector for joining threads, it is
  much simpler if the uinit thread detaches itself before switching to userspace.
  
  task_kill() is now an idempotent operation. It just instructs the threads within a task to exit.
  
  Change in the name of a thread state: Undead -> JoinMe.