Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:17:13 -0600 |
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:
> As long as the original parent is preserved for getppid(). There are programs > out there which communicate between the parent and child with signals, and if > the original parent dies, it undesirable to have the child getppid() and start > sending signals to a program not expecting them. Invites undefined behavior.
Then the programs are broken. getppid is defined to change if the process is reparented to init.
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