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diff --git a/doc/info/orphan-reaper.texinfo b/doc/info/orphan-reaper.texinfo deleted file mode 100644 index 05d9df0..0000000 --- a/doc/info/orphan-reaper.texinfo +++ /dev/null @@ -1,117 +0,0 @@ -\input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- - -@c %**start of header -@setfilename orphan-reaper.info -@settitle orphan-reaper -@afourpaper -@documentencoding UTF-8 -@documentlanguage en -@finalout -@c %**end of header - - -@dircategory Miscellaneous -@direntry -* orphan-reaper: (orphan-reaper). Place subreapers in your process tree to keep it structured -@end direntry - - -@copying -Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Mattias Andrée - -@quotation -Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no -Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover -Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled -``GNU Free Documentation License''. -@end quotation -@end copying - -@ifnottex -@node Top -@top orphan-reaper -- Place subreapers in your process tree to keep it structured -@insertcopying -@end ifnottex - -@titlepage -@title orphan-reaper -@subtitle Place subreapers in your process tree to keep it structured -@author by Mattias Andrée (maandree) - -@page -@c @center `' -@vskip 0pt plus 1filll -@insertcopying -@end titlepage - -@contents - - - -@menu -* Overview:: Brief overview of @command{orphan-reaper}. -* Invoking:: Invocation of @command{orphan-reaper}. -* GNU Free Documentation License:: Copying and sharing this manual. -@end menu - - - -@node Overview -@chapter Overview - -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. - - - -@node Invoking -@chapter Invoking - -@command{orphan-reaper} recognises one option: - -@table @option -@item --fatal -If this option is used, @command{orphan-reaper} -will return with exit value 2 if it is unable -to set up a subreaper. If this option is not -used, @command{orphan-reaper} will proceed to -start the specified command even if it cannot -create a subreaper under it. -@end table - -After the optional option you should specify -a command in the same mannar as you would -start it normally. If the command starts -with a dash (-) you must add the argument -@option{--} before it. - -Once @command{orphan-reaper} has configured -itself to be a subreaper and spawned the -specified command it will reexecute into -@command{reapd} (a libexec) to save memory, -@command{reapd} does nothing at all except -reaping children (processes that they before -their parent are automatically reparented -by the kernel to be a child of @command{reapd}), -and exit with exit value 0 when it no longer -have any children (at which point it cannot -get any new children). It will also print -exit with exit value 2, after it has printed -an error message, if it encounters an error. - - - -@node GNU Free Documentation License -@appendix GNU Free Documentation License -@include fdl.texinfo - -@bye - |