From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Au <cshung@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] transport-helper, connect: add atexit handler to reap children on abnormal exit
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:38:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfr66nol8.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGVkMb6M2buc5zS+SFfYa6LLs7fN369MrVagETVg0U_PN7njOg@mail.gmail.com> (Andrew Au's message of "Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:19:54 -0700")
Andrew Au <cshung@gmail.com> writes:
> Thank you for the feedback.
>
> The use case is a long-running service running as PID 1 inside a
> container. The service continuously spawns git to detect repository
> changes — it is not a one-shot container where git itself is the
> primary process. Because the service is meant to stay alive
> indefinitely, any zombies git leaves behind accumulate over time
> rather than being cleaned up when the container exits.
Wait, the proposed log message said "Git is the pid 1", and now the
above is "there is some long-running service that runs Git". Which
one is it? Wouldn't that long-running service be the right process
that should reap these unwaited children? Or is "git" used as that
long-running service somehow?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-11 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-23 16:51 [PATCH 0/1] Fix zombie children when git is PID 1 in containers Andrew Au
2026-02-23 16:51 ` [PATCH 1/1] transport-helper, connect: add atexit handler to reap children on abnormal exit Andrew Au
2026-02-23 17:14 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-23 18:12 ` Andrew Au
2026-03-11 14:20 ` [PATCH v2] " Andrew Au
2026-03-11 17:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-11 18:19 ` Andrew Au
2026-03-11 19:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-03-11 18:42 ` Jeff King
2026-03-12 19:55 ` [PATCH v3] transport-helper, connect: use clean_on_exit " Andrew Au
2026-03-12 20:40 ` Jeff King
2026-03-12 20:41 ` Jeff King
2026-03-12 20:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-12 21:49 ` [PATCH v4] " Andrew Au
2026-03-12 22:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-14 16:08 ` Jeff King
2026-03-14 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-16 20:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-16 21:19 ` Jeff King
2026-03-16 21:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-11 21:15 ` [PATCH 0/1] Fix zombie children when git is PID 1 in containers brian m. carlson
2026-03-12 19:40 ` Andrew Au
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