Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 06:31:06 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: CLONE_KILLVMCH flag proposal |
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Pavel Krauz writes: > > > This is an proposal for CLONE_KILLVMCH. The process/thread that > > > has this flag set will kill all its children that share the same VM > > > > How about looking at prctl(2), which was added for just this purpose? > > Thanks, I did not know about prctl. Perfect, though how it will behave > if there are children that were cloned with CLONE_VM and forked (cloned > without CLONE_VM). I think that the signal will be delivered to all of them. > > How about an option to deliver signal only to children that were > cloned only with CLONE_VM?
Not needed. The parent death signal is entirely orthogonal from clone options.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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