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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Children of forked process do not die upon receiving
 SIGKILL in Xenomai?
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To: Soo-Hyun Yoo <yoos117@gmail.com>
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On 09/11/2012 06:22 PM, Soo-Hyun Yoo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a certain process "A" that forks and execs a process "B". B
> spawns multiple child processes.
> 
> In the vanilla Linux kernel, I can have A send a SIGTERM or SIGKILL to
> B and thereby successfully kill B and all of its children.
> 
> Under Xenomai, however, I am noticing that the same action kills B,
> but B's children make init their new parent and continue running.
> 
> Why is this, and what can I do to kill B's children without having to
> use a script to track down each child process individually?

No idea, please send a test case allowing us to reproduce the issue.

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					    Gilles.