David,
Is it okay to have a condition that can be created by a mortal user and then cannot be changed by the root? The waiting process cannot be killed and would keep "waiting" till system reboot.
I do not think it is a good idea to make ppwait state uninterruptible in any case.
As to RFNOWAIT, I believe that the correct behavior is to detach after leaving ppwait.
David Schultz wrote:
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, Igor Serikov wrote:
Hello,
Combining flags RFNOWAIT and RFPPWAIT in rfork(2) under 4.6-RELEASE makes the parent process sleeping on channel "ppwait" forever.
RFPPWAIT tells rfork() to wait for the child to exit, and RFNOWAIT tells rfork() to detach the child such that it never tells the parent when it exits. So you're getting exactly what you asked for, as silly as it may be.
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