Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> writes: > As long as the original parent is preserved for getppid(). There are programs > out there which communicate between the parent and child with signals, and if > the original parent dies, it undesirable to have the child getppid() and start > sending signals to a program not expecting them. Invites undefined behavior. Then the programs are broken. getppid is defined to change if the process is reparented to init. 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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