On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:34:13 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:01:56 -0800, Henry Willard wrote: >> >>I believe init (pid 1) becomes the parent. ... >> >I stand corrected, according to experiment with all of OS X, Linux, >Solaris, and z/OS. > >But still, it could provide a model for an alternative to orphans' >ABENDing: if the parent ENDs, the initiator could adopt the children. It could have provided an alternative if, long ago, someone had thought of it. At this point, there is so much tied to the jobstep task that would be cleaned up by its ABENDing, that it would take a complete redesign of the system to allow anything like that. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
