On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:47 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Right now, if a process dies all its children are reparented to init.
> This logic has good uses, i.e. for double forking when
> daemonizing. However it also allows child processes to "escape" their
> parents, which is a problem for software like session managers (such
> as gnome-session) or other process supervisors [1].
>
As we discussed on IRC, another option is for the session
manager/process supervisor to use the proc connector to receive messages
about fork() and exit() - then it doesn't need to receive SIGCHLD, so it
doesn't matter where the process reparents to.
OTOH, this patch would make the process trees much prettier <g>
Scott
--
Scott James Remnant
[email protected]