On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> 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.
