Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:25:19 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Killing clones |
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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 ;)
-- mingo
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