Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751541Ab0BKKVi (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:21:38 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:54163 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750857Ab0BKKVh convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:21:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2375c9f91002050154m1d179ea7v91c8253b41fc63eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100202120457.GA19605@omega> <20100203153101.GC4177@hack> <20100203174947.GA13943@tango.0pointer.de> <2375c9f91002050154m1d179ea7v91c8253b41fc63eb@mail.gmail.com> From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:21:19 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] exit: PR_SET_ANCHOR for marking processes as reapers for child processes To: =?UTF-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico_Wang?= Cc: Lennart Poettering , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 686 Lines: 18 On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:54, Américo Wang wrote: >> Also, on a side note: code that checks if its parent process died most >> likely should rewritten to use PR_DEATHSIG or something like that >> anyway, so that it is notified about the parent dying instead of >> polling for it manually. >> > > I agree, but this is not a reason for you to break the compatiblity. Any substantial comments instead? Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/