Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:43:53 +0200 | From | Lennart Poettering <> | Subject | Re: + prctl-add-pr_setget_child_reaper-to-allow-simple-process-supervision .patch added to -mm tree |
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On Wed, 17.08.11 15:45, Oleg Nesterov (oleg@redhat.com) wrote:
> You should mark the whole process as sub-reaper, not a single thread > which does prctl(). The parent/child relationship is process-wide.
Hmm, how would we implement this best? Would it be sufficient to follow group_leader pointer to set/get the flag, and to follow real_parent instead of parent when looking for the reaper task (i.e. the one with the flag set)?
Lennart
-- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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