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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir.singh@wipro.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is reparent_to_init a good thing to do?
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:13:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01101018134508.11498@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BC3118B.8050001@wipro.com> <3BC42E65.3060706@wipro.com> <3BC446E0.5020604@wipro.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BC446E0.5020604@wipro.com>

On Wednesday 10 October 2001 09:02, BALBIR SINGH wrote:
> Balbir Singh wrote:
> > Rob Landley wrote:
> >> Or long lived kernel threads from short lived login sessions.
...
> Ooh! sorry this is a wrong approach to send SIGCHLD to the previous parent.
> AFAIK, all shells send their children SIGHUP when the shell exits, but SSH
> may have some special security consideration in waiting for all children to
> exit, does anyone know?
>
> Balbir

The problem I mentioned above was the reason "reparent_to_init" was created 
in the first place.  Here it is in the archive:

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0105.0/0045.html

I.E. already fixed...

Google could probably find Jimmy Hoffa given half a chance...  (If we could 
just figure out how to connect it up to maps.yahoo.com...)

Rob

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-11  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-09 15:02 is reparent_to_init a good thing to do? BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-09 16:13 ` Andrew Morton
2001-10-09 20:26   ` Rob Landley
2001-10-10 11:17     ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-10 13:02       ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-10-10 22:13         ` Rob Landley [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.1002644159.30689.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-10-09 18:46   ` Pete Zaitcev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-10 14:38 Jesse Pollard

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