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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc4] kernel/exit: Fix a comment and code contradiction
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:45:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070317093856.GB32496@leiferikson> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070317062132.GA11326@Ahmed>

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:21:32AM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> Comment in release_task() claims that group leader's parent process 
> is signalled only if it desires so, which is not true.

AFAIS, `if it wants notification' means, it does not ignore its children
via SIG_IGN als handler for SIGCHLD.

do_notify_parent() checks if the parent wants to get informed about the
child states.

- Johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-17 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-17  6:21 Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-03-17  9:45 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2007-03-17 15:00   ` Ahmed S. Darwish

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