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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2006
Dean Joseph Burdick, Austin, TX (US);
David Jones Craft, Austin, TX (US);
Eric Philip Fried, Austin, TX (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Lance Warren Russell, Rosanky, TX (US);
Marc Joel Stephenson, Austin, TX (US);
Dean Joseph Burdick, Austin, TX (US);
David Jones Craft, Austin, TX (US);
Eric Philip Fried, Austin, TX (US);
Vinit Jain, Austin, TX (US);
Lance Warren Russell, Rosanky, TX (US);
Marc Joel Stephenson, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a software partition in logical partitioned data processing system. A virtual root process is created for the software partition, wherein the virtual root process functions as a root process for the software partition. The set of child processes is re-parented to the virtual root process in response to termination of a process having a set of child processes.