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Support spawning a process and making sure it doesn't leave any children behind
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Description
For example, Linux has prctl(PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER) and Windows has job groups.
Contributor guide
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Research direction
The issue names no files, entry points, or tests. Start by researching the existing process-spawning API and the Linux PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER and Windows job groups mentioned here. Done means spawned processes cannot leave child processes behind on the supported platforms.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100