[Johannes please use replay-to-all to notify all readers]
On 2007-03-17 9:45:36 Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:21:32AM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> > Comment in release_task() claims that group leader's parent process
> > is signalled only if it desires so, which is not true.
>
> AFAIS, `if it wants notification' means, it does not ignore its children
> via SIG_IGN als handler for SIGCHLD.
>
AFAIK, exit_signal = -1 means that the parent don't want to be signalled,
like what happenes when using CLONE_THREAD.
But it's even signalled in that case (after issuing a BUG):
BUG_ON(leader->exit_signal == -1);
do_notify_parent(leader, leader->exit_signal);
> do_notify_parent() checks if the parent wants to get informed about the
> child states.
>
Yes it does the check but it notifies the given task_struct anyway:
BUG_ON(sig == -1);
[ Continue parent notification normally ]
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
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