From: Stefan Strogin <sstro...@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 01:04:29 +0300
> The intention is to get notified of process failures as soon > as possible, before a possible core dumping (which could be very long) > (e.g. in some process-manager). Coredump and exit process events > are perfect for such use cases (see 2b5faa4c553f "connector: Added > coredumping event to the process connector"). > > The problem is that for now the process-manager cannot know the parent > of a dying process using connectors. This could be useful if the > process-manager should monitor for failures only children of certain > parents, so we could filter the coredump and exit events by parent > process and/or thread ID. > > Add parent pid and tgid to coredump and exit process connectors event > data. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Strogin <sstro...@cisco.com> > Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <z...@ioremap.net> Applied to net-next, thank you.
