From 719f56174c4fb16cefbd097336a765e0239db852 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Belousov Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:39:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] MFC r350861: wait(2): clarify reparenting of children of the exiting process. --- lib/libc/sys/wait.2 | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 index 69a14464ea8..196597f1055 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/wait.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)wait.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 24, 2018 +.Dd August 11, 2019 .Dt WAIT 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -511,8 +511,12 @@ A status of 0 indicates normal termination. .Pp If a parent process terminates without waiting for all of its child processes to terminate, -the remaining child processes are assigned the parent -process 1 ID (the init process ID). +the remaining child processes are re-assigned to the reaper +of the exiting process as the parent, see +.Xr procctl 2 +.Dv PROC_REAP_ACQUIRE . +If no specific reaper was assigned, the process with ID 1, the init process, +becomes the parent of the orphaned children by default. .Pp If a signal is caught while any of the .Fn wait @@ -648,6 +652,7 @@ do not specify a valid set of processes. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr _exit 2 , +.Xr procctl 2 , .Xr ptrace 2 , .Xr sigaction 2 , .Xr exit 3 , -- 2.45.0