Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:05:05 -0400 | From | Mike Shaver <> | Subject | Re: Patch: CLONE_PPID (was kernel thread support - LWP's) |
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Alan Curry wrote: > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes the following: > >Any process can have children it doesn't know about creating, so this is not a > >new situation. It doesn't seem worth adding cruft to prevent. > > Are you prepared to give an example?
Init creates pid 101 Pid 101 forks, creating pid 102 Pid 101 exits, SIGCHLD is delivered to init Pid 102 is now reparented to be a child of init Pid 102 exits, SIGCHLD is delivered to init
Dunno about ``any process'', though.
Mike
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