★ wanayoo — archive 1999 http://www.kernelnotes.org/patch/21-p0772.html

Fix for exit_notify()

Andreas Schwab (schwab@LS5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
Tue Aug 12 02:27:00 1997

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21-exit_notify-48.patch

When exit_notify reparents the childs of the dying process it may crash when the original parent of a child does not currently have any children. This can happen for example when a debugger crashes while it is attached to a process that wasn't started by the debugger.

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