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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> diff --git a/reap.1 b/reap.1 index f5c8701..86cd2c9 100644 --- a/reap.1 +++ b/reap.1 @@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ is enabled. can only work reliably when it has permission to kill all spawned processes and they respect .Dv SIGTERM . +.Sh RATIONALE +Keeping track of all spawned process is traditionally a hard problem +on Unix systems, mainly due to daemonization by forking twice. +.Pp +Other approaches on Linux exist, such as cgroups or PID namespaces. +The approach taken by +.Nm +has the benefit of requiring no special permissions. .Sh AUTHORS .An Leah Neukirchen Aq Mt leah@vuxu.org .Sh LICENSE |