Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> writes: > On 04/10, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> So this patch fixes the pdeath_signal behaviour only sending a signal >> when the results of getppid would change. > > Don't get me wrong, I personally like this patch very much. However, Good point. I guess we have a simple question. Does a parent death signal make most sense between separately written programs? If so this patch is a bug fix. Does a parent death signal make most sense between processes that are part of a larger program. If so there is little point to this patch. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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