[PATCH]: Patch to fix hang on exit bug under Linux and add optional exit delay

[Damien Miller]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Nicolas Williams wrote:

> > No.  A program could have done setsid() and started a new process
> > group - think of daemons that do all that daemons should do, but forget
> > to close stderr (because of stupid programming bugs in binary-only
> > software - whatever "not easily fixable" reason there might be).
> 
> Of course, yes, but such programs usually dissasociate from their
> controlling tty too.
> 
> Even if they don't, killing those process groups is *still* worthwhile.

I think I tried sending HUPs to the process group sometime around 2.3.0,
it didn't help for some reason - but I don't remember why.

-d

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