From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sylwester Arabas Subject: perf kills the whole process group on error - intentional? Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:48:58 +0100 Message-ID: <5143A55A.5060507@itstudio.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from host49.kei.pl ([94.152.8.49]:43978 "EHLO smtp.host49.kei.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754406Ab3COWzm (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:55:42 -0400 Sender: linux-perf-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Cc: eric.noulard@gmail.com Hello, Here's a description of a situation where perf kills its parent process on error (by sending SIFTERM to all processes of its process group): http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14015 Is this behavior intentional? Thanks, Sylwester