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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.113140.28313@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 11:31:40 GMT
- References: <20189@plains.NoDak.edu> <1992Sep6.225138.11383@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1992Sep10.151134.8267@ksmith.uucp>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
- >What SHOULD happen in my experience is the CHILD process should receive
- >a SIGHUP when the parent dies. The DEFAULT action for SIGHUP should be
- >death. This is VERY important from a minimal security standpoint.
-
- I have no problems with the behaviour you describe. It is not, however,
- the behaviour against which I have been arguing. What I have been
- arguing against is sending SIGKILL to children when the parent dies.
-
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- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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