[Bug 1527348] Re: restarting cron kills children on 16.04 - did not kill on 14.04

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** Changed in: cron (Debian)
       Status: Unknown => Fix Released

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Title:
  restarting cron kills children on 16.04 - did not kill on 14.04

Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in cron source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in cron package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  In the middle of a script run by cron, I'm restarting the cron service
  (service cron restart).

  The script finishes just fine on 14.04 (and keeps doing whatever is
  after the cron restart). On 16.04, it kills the script meaning that it
  kills all its children.

  Behavior should be reverted where children are not killed upon
  restart.

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