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| author | Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> | 2019-08-13 14:43:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> | 2019-08-13 14:43:10 +0200 |
| commit | 4fbb854d95053bab4164c836fa87e2510c4acd5a (patch) | |
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reap.1: add rationale
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diff --git a/README b/README index 3ef974d..d5c6af4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ ASSUMPTIONS reap can only work reliably when it has permission to kill all spawned processes and they respect SIGTERM. +RATIONALE + Keeping track of all spawned process is traditionally a hard problem on + Unix systems, mainly due to daemonization by forking twice. + + Other approaches on Linux exist, such as cgroups or PID namespaces. The + approach taken by reap has the benefit of requiring no special + permissions. + AUTHORS Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> |