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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:31:01 +0800
From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exit: PR_SET_ANCHOR for marking processes as reapers
	for child processes
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On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:04:57PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>
>This patch adds a simple flag for each process that marks it as an
>"anchor" process for all its children and grandchildren. If a child of
>such an anchor dies all its children will not be reparented to init, but
>instead to this anchor, escaping this anchor process is not possible. A
>task with this flag set hence acts is little "sub-init".
>

This will break the applictions which using 'getppid() == 1' to check
if its real parent is dead or not...

-- 
Live like a child, think like the god.
 
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