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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2014-09-23 01:18:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2014-09-23 01:18:19 +0200 |
| commit | fdcc0caf017e3e37e4143080b0ba17ddc8ee5e54 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c5aa7e6569c1c0fa7dc2c140aa7632df8013afd | |
| parent | add reapd (diff) | |
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add readme
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +This a daemon spawns a process and reaps all orphaned +grandchildren. This is useful if you want to keep +your process tree clean. For instance if you want +all programs started from inside the same display +server instance to appear to be inside that display +if you look inside the process tree, rather than all +processes that loses their parent being reparented +to PID 1 and make a mess on your process tree. + |