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Re: bug in SignalSomeChildren

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-20T20:40:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout
<kleptog@svana.org> wrote:
> Frankly it's a wart, for example strace/truss/whatever could (since
> it's tracing anyway) just fudge the correct value in the getppid() call
> so the userspace process doesn't notice. This has been a bug since
> forever though, so I wouldn't hold my breath.

Yeah, I have a vague recollection of noticing this in some other
context ~10 years ago.

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