On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 13:30 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Christian Brauner: > > > /* zombies */ > > Zombies can be signaled just as any other process. No special error will be > > reported since a zombie state is an unreliable state (cf. [3]). > > I still disagree with this analysis. If I know that the target process > is still alive, and it is not, this is a persistent error condition > which can be reliably reported. Given that someone might send SIGKILL > to the process behind my back, detecting this error condition could be > useful.
As I understand it, kill() behaves the same way. I think it's good that this new syscall keeps the behavior as close as possible to kill(). E.g., this would allow emulating kill() (or a higher level API equivalent) on top of taskfds without subtle differences in behavior. As the new syscall supports flags, we could consider introducing a flag that changes the behavior in the zombie case. However, I think that should be a separate discussion (after merge of the syscall) and the default behavior makes sense as is. Jürg
