task_struct's real_parent vs parent members

[Mulyadi Santosa]

Hi Vimal...

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 03:40, Vimal <j.vimal at gmail.com> wrote:
> The documentation in sched.h:1313 says that "parent" refers to the
> parent task that would receive SIGCHLD (i.e., the one that issues
> wait4()).  I followed the wait4() syscall to do_wait(), I still am not
> able to find where the task's parent is updated.

I am bit rusty here, but AFAIK sigchld is thrown to the process who
ptrace another process. CMIIW

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