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From: Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au>
To: Adam Megacz <adam@megacz.com>, Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu>
Cc: supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: orphan processes
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:09:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706052051500.13856@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fy55ewts.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>


On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Paul Jarc wrote:

>> Anyways, this got me thinking: is there any way in UNIX for the leader
>> of a process/session group to tell the system that orphan processes in
>> that group should be reparented to the leader rather than "pid 1"?
>
> I don't think so.

Not as such. But do some research on linux "containers" and "pid 
namespace". It's possible to have multiple sets of pids, including 
multiple pid 1s. Each pid 1 will collect orphan processes within its own 
pid namespace.


      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-06  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06  0:17 Adam Megacz
2007-06-06  0:43 ` Paul Jarc
2007-06-06  1:09   ` Charlie Brady [this message]

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