On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 08:00 +0000, Jürg Billeter wrote: > This patch adds a new prctl to kill all descendant processes on exit. > See commit message for details of the prctl. > > This is a replacement of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG_PROC I proposed last year [1]. > In the following discussion, Oleg suggested this approach. > > The motivation for this is to provide a lightweight mechanism to prevent > stray processes. There is also a related Bugzilla entry [2]. Andrew, Eric, does this look good to you as well? Jürg
