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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] mm: introduce process_reap system call
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 2:47 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> * Suren Baghdasaryan:
>
> > The API is as follows,
> >
> > int process_reap(int pidfd, unsigned int flags);
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> > The process_reap() system call is used to free the memory of a
> > dying process.
> >
> > The pidfd selects the process referred to by the PID file
> > descriptor.
> > (See pidofd_open(2) for further information)
> >
> > The flags argument is reserved for future use; currently, this
> > argument must be specified as 0.
> >
> > RETURN VALUE
> > On success, process_reap() returns 0. On error, -1 is returned
> > and errno is set to indicate the error.
>
> I think the manual page should mention what it means for a process to be
> “dying”, and how to move a process to this state.

Thanks for the suggestion, Florian! Would replacing "dying process"
with "process which was sent a SIGKILL signal" be sufficient?

>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>

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