mac carbon VM 3.8.14b3 pending
Juergen Gmeiner
gj at gjdv.at
Mon Nov 20 22:18:37 UTC 2006
On 20.11.2006, at 21:53, John M McIntosh wrote:
> Normally what will happen is if the plugin instance is destroyed we
> then sigterm the associated child process. But if the browser
> crashes, not uncommon, the sub-process are left running... Mmm I
> wonder if the child process can get notification if the parent is
> terminated?
Notification - no. But it can check it's parent process via getppid
(). If a process's parent is terminated, it gets the process with
PID 1 as new parent. It's not init as in traditional unix systems
but launchd, but it seems they kept the magic process id 1.
cheers,
Juergen
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