On Thursday 12 March 2015 18:40:03 Josh Triplett wrote: > This patch series introduces a new clone flag, CLONE_FD, which lets the > caller handle child process exit notification via a file descriptor rather > than SIGCHLD. CLONE_FD makes it possible for libraries to safely launch > and manage child processes on behalf of their caller, *without* taking over > process-wide SIGCHLD handling (either via signal handler or signalfd). FYI, the matching use of this feature in Qt can be found at: https://codereview.qt-project.org/108455 https://codereview.qt-project.org/108456 The forkfd.c file this modifies aims at implementing the semantics of CLONE_FD for the fork case when support for CLONE_FD is missing in the kernel. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
