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diff --git a/orphan-reaper.1 b/orphan-reaper.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a4bb34 --- /dev/null +++ b/orphan-reaper.1 @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +.TH ORPHAN-REAPER 1 ORPHAN-REAPER +.SH NAME +orphan-reaper - Keep your process tree clean +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BR orphan-reaper +[-f] +.IR command ... +.SH DESCRIPTION +This user 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. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR \-f +Fail if the process cannot become a subreaper. +.SH RATIONALE +It is really nice to have a processes that are running +inside a display server to be a grandchild of the +display server, rather than being reparanted to PID 1. +Especially when multiple display servers are running. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR prctl (2), +.BR pstree (1), +.BR htop (1) +.SH AUTHORS +Mattias Andrée +.RI < maandree@kth.se > |