On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 15:22 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > It will be used for all new service managers. UNIX is a pain if you want > > to watch your children regarding double-forking, if you are not init. > > I'll believe that "all new service managers" when I see it. Until > then, a new feature is just that - a new feature. Which nobody uses. That feature will be used in Fedora 17 if we get that properly working. Promised! So far we have a pretty good track record in immediately using the stuff we add to the kernel. People working on the other side usually complain that we always require such new kernels. :) > > If you want, we can make the forked processes inherit a flag if the > > 'subreaper' should be looked up at all. Then we have almost zero > > overhead if the feature isn't used. You think that's needed? > > Yes, I do. Because with any current system, that "almost zero > overhead" is just totally wasted effort entirely for zero gain. Which > just makes me go "Eww". Yeah, understood. I'll change it with the next round, and we can see how to go from there. Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
