Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] Add prctl to kill descendants on exit

From: Jürg Billeter
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 10:54:17 EST


On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 08:00 +0000, JÃrg Billeter wrote:
> This patch adds a new prctl to kill all descendant processes on exit.
> See commit message for details of the prctl.
>
> This is a replacement of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG_PROC I proposed last year [1].
> In the following discussion, Oleg suggested this approach.
>
> The motivation for this is to provide a lightweight mechanism to prevent
> stray processes. There is also a related Bugzilla entry [2].

Andrew, Eric, does this look good to you as well?

JÃrg