I just found an error:
> >
> > This already exists. Do prctl(PR_SET_DEATHSIG, SOME_NEW_SIGNAL) in the child
> > and ignore that signal in the parent (at least it should work in theory,
> > I haven't tested it)
> >
This actually _wont_work_, as this is the _parent_ death signal (which
_we_ receive when our _parent_ dies). So, while using
prctl(PR_SET_PDEATH_SIG,...) is a good way to initiate cleanup when a
multithreaded app is killed (which, BTW, solves the kill -9 problem),
there's no way we can change the signal our _parent_ would get when _we_
die (and a good thing that is too: I believe it would have been useful to
escape certain kinds of limited-execution traps...)
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