Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren
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Msg-id AANLkTimwOvsTF9O3BPDXw+R1tF=yPNDbJ5HbBWeCMiic@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout
<kleptog@svana.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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