On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:54:44PM +0000, sin wrote: > Hm yes, you are right, the FIFO code never reaps children. We could > probably use the double fork trick + killing the parent to force it to > be reaped by the original process (the parent of the FIFO code).
Double forking would take care of the spawned process. But you'd still be forced to boot with the file system mounted read-write. I don't know if that's the way to go. I think Arch wants you to boot with a read-writable root fs nowadays, but I don't know what the benefit should be. Even more so since you need to remount it read-only during system initialisation anyway before checking it. -- Eckehard Berns