RFR 9: 8077350 Process API Updates Implementation Review

[Martin Buchholz]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>
wrote:

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> +        } else if (siginfo.si_code == CLD_KILLED || siginfo.si_code == CLD_DUMPED) {
>
> Using siginfo probably won't work under load because multiple signals
> arriving at the same time are coalesced into one, at least on Linux.
> Unix signals are sadly totally broken.
>

Of course I was wrong - I should have looked more closely at the code -
you're not using signals, despite the use of siginfo!

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Can you explain why you chose to use waitid instead of waitpid?