View Source Stdio.Syscall.Linux (stdio v0.3.0)

System call portability for Linux.

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Functions

Terminating descendents of a supervisor process

Terminate descendents of a process.

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Terminating descendents of a supervisor process

Terminate descendents of a process.

reap signals subprocesses of a process identified by PID. If the process called PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER, background and daemonized subprocesses will also be terminated.

Note: terminating subprocesses using this method is subject to race conditions:

  • new processes may have been forked

  • processes may have exited and unrelated processes assigned the PID

  • processes may ignore some signals

  • processes may not immediately exit after signalling