ProcessReaper: single thread reaper

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Wed Mar 26 18:09:26 UTC 2014


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com>wrote:

>  Hi  Martin,
>
> My solution to that is to export a public API that can be used
> by other subsystems that fork processes.  Some peaceful cooperation is
> required.
>

Roger,

I don't think cooperation is possible - your solution must be compatible.
 Other folks may have written native library code 20 years ago that starts
a subprocess and then waits for it, not even designed to coexist with a JVM.



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