title: Is thread still running when the process in "Disk Sleep"?
body: <p>When a process go into the special kind of sleep, known as "D" or "Disk Sleep" in Linux, is its child thread still running normally ? So that the thread could tell me the process is in "Disk Sleep" state.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1475683/linux-process-states">about the "D" state</a></p>
  
  <p>BTW: Sorry for my poor English and thank you all.</p>