Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Background TasksArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.247,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Background jobs can now report EHOSTDEAD when their host process is gone. The liveness probe also recognises a zombie process before it will call a pid alive.
Details
EHOSTDEAD added to the job error-code map, to the classifier that returns "ehostdead", and to the pattern grouping it with ESTALLED and EUNVERIFIED.
Evidence
EHOSTDEAD
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
