Detailed Description

Process reaper for delayed process freeing.

The process reaper ensures that a process is not freed immediately after it is killed. This is important because other processes may still wish to access information about the process, such as its exit status.

The reaper runs periodically and frees any "zombie" processes when they have no remaining threads by deinitializing its /proc directory, when none of the proc files or directories of the process are open its resources are finally freed.

Functions
void	reaper_init (void)
	Initializes the process reaper.

void	reaper_push (process_t *process)
	Pushes a process to be reaped later.

Function Documentation

◆ reaper_init()

void reaper_init ( void )

Initializes the process reaper.

Definition at line 58 of file reaper.c.

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◆ reaper_push()

void reaper_push ( process_t * process )

Pushes a process to be reaped later.

Parameters

process The process to be reaped.