linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] um: Set parent-death signal for sub-processes

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Message-ID: <8926c205386e9b71f05764441b7a44a24964f50e.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:37:11 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw@...group.com>, richard@....at, 
	anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com
Cc: linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] um: Set parent-death signal for sub-processes

On Thu, 2024-10-24 at 22:28 +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> The ubd io and write_sigio threads/processes may leak e.g. when
> the main process is killed by "kill -9". Fix it by setting the
> parent-death signal for them.
> 

I always used killall, but yeah, good idea, thanks!

johannes