Re: [RFC PATCH] daemon: add a self pipe to trigger reaping of children

>> An obvious disadvantage (at least of this implementation), is that it
>> actually doubles the number of events that need to be handled for each
>> children process on most cases (ex: when `poll()` gets interrupted)
>> I suspect that if fixing that last race condition is so important
>> with
>> the current foundation, it might be better to reintroduce some sort of
>> timeout to poll(), so that they will be cleared periodically.
>> I had a prototype (only the bare minimum) that I thought was more
>> efficient and that would instead remove completely the need for a
>> signal handler which I would post (only for RFC) later.
>
> I'm not sure injecting an fd into each child process is a good direction.