process-reaper

Process A fork() s process B. Process A dies and therefore init adopts B. A watchdog creates process C. Is it somehow possible for C to adopt B from init ? Update : Or would it even be possible to have C adopt B directly (when A dies), if C were created prior to A's dead, without init becoming an intermediate parent of B? Update-1: Also I would appreciate any comments on why having the possiblity to adopt a process the way I described would be a bad thing or difficult to impossible to implement. Update-2 - The use case (parent and children refer to process(es)): I have an app using a parent to

Is the new parent always "init" or is there some way to control who gets to be the new parent ? Wikipedia seems indicates that it's always "init". I really hope that this is not the case. I have tried everything I can think of with setpgid and setsid, but no luck. And now that I see this wikipedia article I need advice. In a Unix-like operating system any orphaned process will be immediately adopted by the special init system process. This operation is called re-parenting and occurs automatically. Even though technically the process has the "init" process as its parent, it is still called an