On Saturday 14 March 2015 15:32:35 Oleg Nesterov wrote: > It is not clear to me what do_wait() should do with ->autoreap child, even > ignoring ptrace. > > Just suppose that real_parent has a single "autoreap" child. Should > wait(NULL) hanf then?
It should ignore the child that is set to autoreap. wait(NULL) should return - ECHILD, indicating there are no children waiting to be reaped. But now I realise that this might have implications for session management and job control. > If yes, who will wake the parent up? > > If no, I do not see the necessary changes in wait_cosnider_task(). -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
