From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org Subject: [Bug 43300] ::prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL) uses parent thread death to signal instead of parent process death. Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 10:15:30 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43300 Michael Kerrisk changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED CC| |mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Resolution|--- |DOCUMENTED --- Comment #25 from Michael Kerrisk --- I've added the following text to prctl(2) under the description of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG: Warning: the "parent" in this case is considered to be the thread that created this process. In other words, the signal will be sent when that thread terminates (via, for example, pthread_exit(3)), rather than after all of the threads in the parent process terminate. This suffices, I believe. If not, please reopen the bug. Thanks, Michael -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html