Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] clone4: Add a CLONE_AUTOREAP flag to automatically reap the child process

From: Thiago Macieira
Date: Fri Mar 20 2015 - 14:46:51 EST


On Friday 20 March 2015 19:14:04 Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Also. I forgot that the kernel always resets ->exit_signal to SIGCHLD on
> exec or reparenting. Reparenting is probably fine. But what about exec?
> Should it keep ->exit_signal == 0 if "autoreap" ? I think it should not, to
> avoid the strange special case.

Not delivering any signal was the objective of this patch series, so yes
exit_signal == 0 should survive an exec and even re-exec.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center

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