On 11/27, Jürg Billeter wrote: > > @@ -704,6 +713,9 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int group_dead) > struct task_struct *p, *n; > LIST_HEAD(dead); > > + if (group_dead && tsk->signal->kill_descendants_on_exit) > + walk_process_tree(tsk, kill_descendant_visitor, NULL); Well, this is not exactly right, at least this is suboptimal in that other sub-threads can too call walk_process_tree(kill_descendant_visitor) later for no reason.