On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 2:47 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * Suren Baghdasaryan: > > > The API is as follows, > > > > int process_reap(int pidfd, unsigned int flags); > > > > DESCRIPTION > > The process_reap() system call is used to free the memory of a > > dying process. > > > > The pidfd selects the process referred to by the PID file > > descriptor. > > (See pidofd_open(2) for further information) > > > > The flags argument is reserved for future use; currently, this > > argument must be specified as 0. > > > > RETURN VALUE > > On success, process_reap() returns 0. On error, -1 is returned > > and errno is set to indicate the error. > > I think the manual page should mention what it means for a process to be > “dying”, and how to move a process to this state. Thanks for the suggestion, Florian! Would replacing "dying process" with "process which was sent a SIGKILL signal" be sufficient? > > Thanks, > Florian >
