[Devel] Re: [PATCH] Signal semantics for /sbin/init

Dave Hansen haveblue at us.ibm.com
Tue Oct 30 10:30:32 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 19:24 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> When sending a signal to init.  The presence of a signal handler
> that is neither SIG_IGN nor SIG_DFL allows the signal to be sent to
> init.  If the signal is not sent it is silently dropped, without
> becoming pending.  Further if init specifies it's signal handler as
> SIG_IGN or SIG_DFL all pending signals will be dropped.

Does this mean that container-init processes are specially treated when
signalled from _outside_ the container for which they are the init?

-- Dave

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