On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Laurent Bercot <ska-skaw...@skarnet.org> wrote: > You want a clean process tree with a visually pleasing "ps afuxww" > output? Fix your services so they don't leave orphans in the first > place. ... > Reparenting orphans to anything else than the default is a backwards > way to solve a nonexistent problem.
Name it reaperhack: reaperhack is what it says: a hack. Ideally, you should never have to use it. It is only useful when you want to supervise a daemon that results in orphans; and even then, the right thing is to report this as a bug to the author of the program leaving orphans and have it fixed.