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> The setting is retained across forks, as shown in the original article That’s not what the man page says: > The parent-death signal setting is cleared for t

> The setting is retained across forks, as shown in the original article That’s not what the man page says: > The parent-death signal setting is cleared for the child of a fork(2). https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pr_set_pdeathsig.2const.html https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pr_set_pdeathsig.2cons... Unless the man page is wrong?

zokier 2y ago
I wonder if this is difference between libc fork (which calls clone syscall) and kernel fork syscall.
- skissane 2y ago
  No, it isn’t. Neither glibc fork nor kernel fork syscall provide any special handling for PDEATHSIG beyond what clone syscall does.
  - eqvinox 2y ago
    Yeah, I misremembered/misread and didn't check. Bleh. (The article sets it after forking.)