Re: FEATURE REQUEST : shell option to automatically terminate child processes on parent death

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/12/23 4:49 AM, Corto Beau via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again 
SHell wrote:

> There's another reason the shell option is not a good idea though ; it 
> tells Bash to set the PDEATHSIG flag on all direct children, but we might 
> want to set the flag only for some specific children. Hence the 
> "run_with_pdeathsig" builtin that sets it only for the child created to 
> execute the command.
>
> If target-specific features are an issue, I won't push that proposal any 
> further.

I'd look at a loadable builtin for this. With that approach, you can be
as selective as you want, and extend it to children or mess around with
subreapers.

A loadable builtin is appropriate for a feature that only works on Linux.

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