How to make child process die after parent exits?

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Child can ask kernel to deliver SIGHUP (or other signal) when parent dies by specifying option PR_SET_PDEATHSIG in prctl() syscall like this:

prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGHUP);

See man 2 prctl for details.

Edit: This is Linux-only

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