Messages in this thread | | | From | Karl Pickett <> | Subject | Is prctl(PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER) going to break my code which checks getppid == 1? | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:12:07 -0500 |
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Re: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1236479
I'm wondering if this is going to break code that checks getppid() == 1?
I have a TCL/TK GUI app that spawns ssh. I want the ssh to die immediately if the GUI process crashes, so ssh is launched with a wrapper c program that does:
prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGHUP); if (getppid() == 1) /* parent died already? */ return 0;
So what is getppid() going to return for some user using this new 'session manager reaper'? How else am I supposed to do proper processes supervision (with TCL/TK as a parent...)? Also, this program is open source but we distribute binaries that work on as many platforms as possible... we find most users don't want to compile things.
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