Re: anyone ever implemented a reparent(pid) syscall?

[Chris Friesen]

Werner Almesberger wrote:
 > Chris Friesen wrote:
 >
 >> I would like some way for the main one to restart, read the list of pids
 >> out of a file that it conveniently stashed away,

 > And until it has done this, any child death will still only be seen by init.
 > So you either didn't have a problem with this in the first place, or you
 > can make sure your children don't die while their parents are changing, or
 > you've just designed yourself a race condition.

Sure. So the monitorer starts up, attempts to watch a pid, gets an error saying
that it doesn't exist, and handles it.

In the particular case that I'm planning for, the processes in question are 
long-running ones which should never die except for upgrades (which could be 
designed for).

The general case would be trickier.

Chris

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