ProcessReaper: single thread reaper (original) (raw)

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Wed Apr 9 17:02:47 UTC 2014

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com>wrote:

Hi Martin,

As you might have seen in my later reply to Roger, there's still hope on that front: setpgid() + wait(-pgid, ...) might be the answer. I'm exploring in that direction. Shells are doing it, so why can't JDK? It's a little trickier for Process API, since I imagine that shells form a group of processes from a pipeline which is known in-advance while Process API will have to add processes to the live group dynamically. So some races will have to be resolved, but I think it's doable.

This is a clever idea, and it's arguably better to design subprocesses so they live in separate process groups (emacs does that), but: Every time you create a process group, you change the effect of a user signal like Ctrl-C, since it's sent to only one group. Maybe propagate signals to the subprocess group? It's starting to get complicated...

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