Killing strace with SIGTERM can kill its child as well

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When running multiple strace's in parallel, killing strace with SIGTERM can sometimes kill the process being traced as well.
  • [5.4] When strace command is killed by SIGTERM, the target process of strace command is also terminated.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 4
  • i386

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