[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/6][v3] Container-init signal semantics
Serge E. Hallyn
serue at us.ibm.com
Tue Dec 23 08:51:21 PST 2008
Quoting Sukadev Bhattiprolu (sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com):
>
> Container-init must behave like global-init to processes within the
> container and hence it must be immune to unhandled fatal signals from
> within the container (i.e SIG_DFL signals that terminate the process).
>
> But the same container-init must behave like a normal process to
> processes in ancestor namespaces and so if it receives the same fatal
> signal from a process in ancestor namespace, the signal must be
> processed.
>
> Implementing these semantics requires that send_signal() determine pid
> namespace of the sender but since signals can originate from workqueues/
> interrupt-handlers, determining pid namespace of sender may not always
> be possible or safe.
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue at us.ibm.com>
Tested sending signals to a custom container-init.
Are you planning to address Oleg's comments with a new patch-set,
or with patches on top of this set?
thanks,
-serge
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