Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:10:07 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Killing clones |
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On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Hi, all. I make heavy use of the clone syscall in a number of > applications, and everything works well except when the parent process > dies (say from a SEGV or a call to abort). The problem is the cloned > processes hang around until I manually kill them. I note that there > seems to be a mechanism to choose which signal is sent to the parent > if a child dies (CSIGNAL mask), but not the other way around. > Is there a solution to this problem? I tried cloning the PID but that > stuffs up sending signals to the clones.
LinuxThreads uses a 'manager thread' (which is not the main thread) that can do exactly this kind of cleanup stuff.
the real solution will be Posix.1b RT signal handling ...
-- mingo
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