reaper

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Published: May 22, 2016 License: MIT, MIT Imports: 4 Imported by: 0

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go-reaper

Process (grim) reaper library for golang - this is useful for cleaning up zombie processes inside docker containers (which do not have an init process running as pid 1).

tl;dr

   import reaper "github.com/ramr/go-reaper"

   func main() {
	//  Start background reaping of orphaned child processes.
	go reaper.Reap()

	//  Rest of your code ...
   }

How and Why

If you run a container without an init process (pid 1) which would normally reap zombie processes, you could well end up with a lot of zombie processes and eventually exhaust the max process limit on your system.

If you have a golang program that runs as pid 1, then this library allows the golang program to setup a background signal handling mechanism to handle the death of those orphaned children and not create a load of zombies inside the pid namespace your container runs in.

Usage:

See the tl;dr section above.

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func Reap

func Reap()

Entry point for the reaper code. Start reaping children in the background inside a goroutine.

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