[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 15/16] Enable signaling child reaper from parent ns.

Dave Hansen hansendc at us.ibm.com
Tue May 29 09:47:19 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:13 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 
> First note on that, (current == child_reaper(current)) is correct if we
> want to treat a container init as init no matter who sends the signal,
> however I contend that if a signal is sent from an ancester namespace,
> then we want to treat the task like any other task.
> 
> Could I get some confirmation or rebuttal from Suka, Eric, Dave, or
> Pavel?

I agree with this.  Signals should only be special when you're sending
them "up the chain" to _your_ init process.  We shouldn't do anything at
all special to them when one process in a set of peers just happens to
be the init for a child namespace.  

-- Dave

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