On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 02:12:34PM +0000, David Drysdale wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:29 PM, <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 03:14:14PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> On Monday 16 March 2015 14:44:20 Kees Cook wrote: > >> > > O_CLOEXEC > >> > > Set the close-on-exec flag on the new file > >> > >descriptor. See the description of the O_CLOEXEC flag in open(2) for > >> > >reasons why this may be useful. > >> > > >> > This begs the question: what happens when all CLONE_FD fds for a > >> > process are closed? Will the parent get SIGCHLD instead, will it > >> > auto-reap, or will it be un-wait-able (I assume not this...) > >> > >> Depends on CLONE_AUTOREAP. If it's on, then no one gets SIGCHLD, no one can > >> wait() on it and the process autoreaps itself. > > > > Minor nit: CLONE_AUTOREAP makes the process autoreap and nobody can wait > > on it, but if you pass SIGCHLD or some other exit signal to clone then > > you'll still get that signal. > > Quick query: does CLONE_AUTOREAP also affect waiting for non-exit > events (i.e. WUNTRACED / WCONTINUED), by original parent and/or ptracer? It shouldn't, no. You can't wait on the process to exit (you'll get -ECHLD after it wakes up), but you can wait on it to continue or similar; none of the autoreap changes should affect that. - Josh Triplett -- 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