[Devel] Re: namespace and nsproxy syscalls

[Cedric Le Goater]

Herbert Poetzl wrote:

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> that's just a waste of resources ... IMHO it is 
> a little weird to actually consider having an init
> process 'just' to have a reference for a bunch of
> namespaces, given that you might want to access 
> them individually, am I missing something?
> 
> for me this suggestion sounds like making a dog
> mandatory for each household, so that when you
> want to get the younger son on the phone you
> can refer to him as 'the younger son of the family
> with the dog charly' :) ...

there is still the child reaping issue. 

we need sometask to collect the SIGCHLD of a pidspace because we 
can't redirect them the real init. This would create pid collisions 
and the real init might well respawn a process that has never died.

C.