Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:22:07 +0100 | From | Alexander Kjeldaas <> | Subject | Re: process groups and session ids. |
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On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 12:00:56PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@guardian.no> writes: > > |> Can a process have a process group or a session id that doesn't > |> correspond to an existing process? > > Yes, the session or process group leader may have died already. For > example, you can put a process in the background and then log out, or the > process group leader could have been the head of a pipe, but the consumer > didn't finish yet processing the input even after it received EOF from the > pipe. >
That's what I thought too. I'm therefore designing a feature that will get this information fast. [And in the process remove most unneeded for_each_tasks in the kernel (fork,exit,setsig etc)].
astor
-- Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway http://www.guardian.no/
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