Re: self_exec_id/parent_exec_id && CLONE_PARENT

From: richard -rw- weinberger
Date: Sun Mar 11 2012 - 14:37:35 EST


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I am also asking because the change above looks like the fix to me.
>> The child must not control its ->exit_signal, it is the parent who
>> decides which signal the child should use for notification.
>>
>> And to me, clone(CLONE_PARENT | SIGXXX) looks like a violation of
>> rule above.
>
> SIGXXX is for doing things like AIO with threads, but it would never
> be used together with CLONE_PARENT, that would be odd and wrong.
>
> So I think we could disallow that - or at least try. See if anybody
> notices, and if it breaks anything.
>

UserModeLinux is using CLONE_PARENT | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD.
Is this a problem?

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Thanks,
//richard
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