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From: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, roland@hack.frob.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: + prctl-add-pr_setget_child_reaper-to-allow-simple-process-supervision .patch added to -mm tree
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:43:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110818124353.GA2839@tango.0pointer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110817134516.GA14136@redhat.com>

On Wed, 17.08.11 15:45, Oleg Nesterov (oleg@redhat.com) wrote:

> You should mark the whole process as sub-reaper, not a single thread
> which does prctl(). The parent/child relationship is process-wide.

Hmm, how would we implement this best? Would it be sufficient to follow
group_leader pointer to set/get the flag, and to follow real_parent
instead of parent when looking for the reaper task (i.e. the one with
the flag set)?

Lennart

-- 
Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-18 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <201108162011.p7GKBcY0023134@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-17 11:55 ` + prctl-add-pr_setget_child_reaper-to-allow-simple-process-supervision .patch added to -mm tree Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-17 13:05   ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-17 13:21     ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-17 13:37       ` Alan Cox
2011-08-23  0:30         ` Colin Walters
2011-08-17 14:16       ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-17 16:03       ` Denys Vlasenko
2011-08-17 13:13   ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-17 13:45     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-17 15:45       ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-17 15:53         ` Alan Cox
2011-08-17 16:20         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-17 16:47           ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-17 18:57             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-17 20:56               ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-18 12:43       ` Lennart Poettering [this message]
2011-08-18 14:25         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-18 18:11           ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-18 18:48             ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-19  1:31               ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-19 12:25                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-19 12:44                   ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-19 13:13                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-19 14:20                       ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-19 14:58                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-20 15:33                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-21 18:33                             ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-22 11:14                               ` Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-22 23:48                                 ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-18 21:23             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-18 21:55               ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-18 22:22                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-19  0:48                   ` Kay Sievers

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