Re: Patch: CLONE_PPID (was kernel thread support - LWP's)

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:09:53 -0700 (PDT)

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On 20-Jul-99 Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> There may be code out there which gets confused on receiving a SIGCLD
> for (or wait()ing on) a child which it doesn't remember creating.

Any process can have children it doesn't know about creating, so this is not a
new situation. It doesn't seem worth adding cruft to prevent.

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