On 03/20, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Friday 20 March 2015 19:14:04 Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Also. I forgot that the kernel always resets ->exit_signal to SIGCHLD on > > exec or reparenting. Reparenting is probably fine. But what about exec? > > Should it keep ->exit_signal == 0 if "autoreap" ? I think it should not, to > > avoid the strange special case. > > Not delivering any signal was the objective of this patch series, so yes > exit_signal == 0 should survive an exec and even re-exec. OK, but then perhaps we should never send SIGCHLD (on exit) if "autoreap", to make the logic simple. And copy_process() should probably do if ((clone_flags & CSIGNAL) && (clone_flags && CLONE_AUTOREAP)) return -EINVAL; so that we still can change this behaviour later. Oleg. -- 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
