Process hierarchy on a DC?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 13:21 +0200, vl at samba.org wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:53:16PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett via samba-
> technical wrote:
> > > When killing (in the above case) process 24963, the others crash.
> > 
> > As in exit, or crash hard in some way?
> 
> Just because you are asking: I have not done the due diligence on the
> exit behaviour yet that would be required for a proper bug report, so
> apologies for not giving you the full diagnosis yet.
> 
> This is the picture I get when doing a "kill -15" on the parent
> process of the "samba" processes:
> 
> 25255 ?        S      0:00 bin/samba
> 25513 ?        S      0:00  \_ sh -c /bin/sleep 999999999
> 25514 ?        S      0:00      \_ /bin/sleep 999999999
> 25266 ?        S      0:00 bin/samba
> 25511 ?        S      0:00  \_ sh -c /bin/sleep 999999999
> 25512 ?        S      0:00      \_ /bin/sleep 999999999
> 
> To my uninformed eye this looks surprising.

I agree.  I also wonder what is going on here.

Thanks!

Andrew Bartlett
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