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Re: Patch: FYI: ignore unknown children when reaping
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
- Cc: Java Patch List <java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: 05 Jan 2006 12:38:20 -0700
- Subject: Re: Patch: FYI: ignore unknown children when reaping
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- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
>> + // Note that if process==NULL, then we have an unknown child.
>> + // This is not common, but can happen, and isn't an error.
Mark> So how/when does this happen? And why isn't it an error?
Native code could fork/exec. Or, as I recall, you can inherit running
children from whatever process exec()d this one.
Tom