[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Make child processes exit when parent dies

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Tue Aug 11 15:43:07 UTC 2009


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On 08/11/2009 10:44 AM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On 08/06/2009 05:13 PM, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
>> We could catch most signals the way we do catch SIGTERM and relay them
>> to children. This still wouldn't cover the SIGKILL case where the admin
>> shoots down monitor. This is cross-platform which is of course huge
>> advantage.
> 
>> But in my opinion, we should still use prctl() where available, because
>> it is much cleaner solution -- you don't have to explicitly enumerate
>> all the signals to handle and you can also cover the SIGKILL case.
> 
> 
> Attached is a patch that says the same in C.
> 
> 	Jakub

Ack

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