function just to be extra safety and paranoid.
- Rewrite the thread shim to take full advantage of the
new kernel kthread API. This greatly simplifies things.
- Add a new regression test for thread_exit() to ensure
it properly terminates a thread immediately without
allowing futher execution of the thread.
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