Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren
Date: 2010-12-20 20:40:27
Message-ID: AANLkTimwOvsTF9O3BPDXw+R1tF=yPNDbJ5HbBWeCMiic@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout
<kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> wrote:
> Frankly it's a wart, for example strace/truss/whatever could (since
> it's tracing anyway) just fudge the correct value in the getppid() call
> so the userspace process doesn't notice. This has been a bug since
> forever though, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

Yeah, I have a vague recollection of noticing this in some other
context ~10 years ago.

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Robert Haas
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