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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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    > Suppose it comes between there and the call to remove_process?
    > Does the right thing happen in all these cases?

    I think so. In fact, synchronous  process will be said to be dead, but
    as we  are calling at this  moment delete-process, we  are not working
    with any synchronous processes.

Thanks for checking.

Please add a comment explaining why there is no race condition if
SIGCHLD comes in during those lines.