Re: Patch: CLONE_PPID (was kernel thread support - LWP's)
Alan Curry (pacman-kernel@cqc.com)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:22:25 -0500 (EST)
Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes the following:
>
>On 20-Jul-99 Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
>> There may be code out there which gets confused on receiving a SIGCLD
>> for (or wait()ing on) a child which it doesn't remember creating.
>
>Any process can have children it doesn't know about creating, so this is not a
>new situation. It doesn't seem worth adding cruft to prevent.
Are you prepared to give an example?
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