Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would it make sense to depend on the fatal-signal or wait-process module, > so that you can kill the child process when the parent is sent a catchable > fatal signal?
I'm inclined not to do that, because it adds complexity for limited benefit, and the complexity will subtract from reliability in other ways. I suppose it might be different if a child process were spun off in the normal case, but child processes will be quite rare in practice. For what it's worth, POSIX allows this behavior, as it doesn't specify whether utilities are uniprocess. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
