Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.BR clone (2).
The setting is preserved across
.BR execve (2).
+
+Establishing a subreaper process is useful in session management frameworks
+where a hierarchical group of processes is managed by a subreaper process
+that needs to be informed when one of the processes\(emfor example,
+a double-forked daemon\(emterminates
+(perhaps so that it can restart that process).
+Some
+.BR init (1)
+frameworks (e.g.,
+.BR systemd (1))
+employ a subreaper process for similar reasons.
.TP
.BR PR_GET_CHILD_SUBREAPER " (since Linux 3.4)"
Return the "child subreaper" setting of the caller,