Re:File Locks on Linux
by bheadmaster on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:20AM
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> Nothing saves you from kill -9, as we all know.
True, but it doesn't have to be you who does the cleanup. You could create a background process and establish a temporary UNIX socket connection, so when the parent dies, the socket closes and the child process cleans up everything.
True, but it doesn't have to be you who does the cleanup. You could create a background process and establish a temporary UNIX socket connection, so when the parent dies, the socket closes and the child process cleans up everything.