Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 1997 23:17:45 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Killing clones |
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Ingo Molnar writes: > > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > LinuxThreads uses a 'manager thread' (which is not the main thread) that > > > can do exactly this kind of cleanup stuff. > > > > But how does this manager know when the parent has died? Does it > > periodically wake up and check if its ppid == 1? Yuk. > > nope, use waitpid(-1,&status,..). The status then tells you why the child > exited. > > of course if the manager dies that cannot be solved. It should be simple > enough and should not die spontaneously ;)
??? But waitpid will not wait for the *parent* process, so how can it use this to check for the existance of the parent?
Regards,
Richard....
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