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Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates
From: |
Nathaniel Smith |
Subject: |
Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:24:45 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:59:49AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 10/29/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >It should be possible to deal with zombies through some POSIX hackery,
> >no? The only tricky bit is that we _do_ sometimes want to wait for a
> >process, so we can't just unconditionally get rid of zombies...
>
> Fork a child, which forks a grandchild and exits. Grandchild execs
> what you really wanted to run. wait() returns for the child, and the
> grandchild gets reparented to init.
Well, there you go. And I guess we could wrap all this up in a
boolean 'waitable' flag to spawn()?
-- Nathaniel
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- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Timothy Brownawell, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Zack Weinberg, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Nuno Lucas, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Nathaniel Smith, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Zack Weinberg, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Nuno Lucas, 2006/10/29
- offtopic: POSIX signals (was Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates), Nathaniel Smith, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates,
Nathaniel Smith <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Brian May, 2006/10/29
- Re: [Monotone-devel] auto updates, Brian May, 2006/10/30