On Monday 16 March 2015 15:36:16 Kees Cook wrote: > And just so I understand the races here, what happens in CLONE_FD > (without CLONE_AUTOREAP) case where the child dies, but the parent > never reads from the CLONE_FD fd, and closes it (or dies)? Will the > modes switch that late in the child's lifetime? (i.e. even though the > details were written to the fd, they were never read, yet it'll still > switch and generate a SIGCHLD, etc?) What happens to a child that dies during the parent's lifetime but the parent exits without reaping the child? The same should happen, whatever that behaviour is. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
