On Thu, 10.01.13 23:51, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: Hey, sorry for never doing the doc work! Here are my comments: > > +.BR PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER " (since Linux 3.3)" > > +Sets a process, such as a service manager, such that orphan (double-forking) > > +child processes re-parent to this process instead of > > +.BR init (8). I don't like this reference to "double-forking" here. After all, this also applies to triple-forking, quadruple-forking and even quintuple-forking... ;-) Expressing this is difficult, but here's my try: "Enables that the process becomes a 'subreaper' for all its (immediate or indirect) offspring processes. Any process whose immediate parent dies and whose ancestry includes a process where this flag is set will be reparented to the closest process with this flag set, instead of PID 1. A 'subreaper' hence receives SIGHCLD signals for any orphaned offspring processes, that otherwise would be received by the init process." > > +The service manager > > +is able to receive > > +.B SIGCHLD > > +signals and is able to investigate the process until > > +it calls > > +.BR wait (2). Drop this. > > +All children of this process will inherit a flag if they should > > +look for a child_subreaper process at exit. Set This bit should go, it's an inplementation detail, als Kay already pointed out. > > +.I arg2 > > +to 1 or 0 to enable or disable, respectively. > > +.TP > > +.BR PR_GET_CHILD_SUBREAPER " (since Linux 3.3)" > > +Returns whether calling process is a child subreaper (see > > +.BR PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER ), > > +in the location pointed to by > > +.IR "(int\ *) arg2" . > > +.TP > > .BR PR_SET_SECUREBITS " (since Linux 2.6.26)" > > Set the "securebits" flags of the calling thread to the value supplied in > > .IR arg2 . > > Otherwise sounds good. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- 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
