[Devel] Re: [PATCH 7/7][v7] proc: Show SIG_DFL signals to init as "ignored" signals

Sukadev Bhattiprolu sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jan 19 17:04:53 PST 2009


Oleg Nesterov [oleg at redhat.com] wrote:
| On 01/17, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
| >
| > Init processes ignore SIG_DFL signals unless they are from an ancestor
| > namespace.  Ensure /proc/pid/status correcly reports these signals.
| 
| This is the user-visible change, and I don't really understand why do we
| need it.

This discussion came up earlier, with Bastian and Roland and my understanding
was that we should fix the SigIgn line in /proc/pid/status - so I had added
a TODO for this patchset.

| 
| Imho, this patch can confuse the user-space. Why should we report that,
| say, SIGCONT is ignored by the global init?

But it is ignored right ?

Also, if user space looks at the SigIgn line and assumes that SIGKILL or
SIGUSR1 will kill init, user space can still be confused when it doesn't
really kill - no ?

| 
| 
| Even if I am wrong, I believe this change is orthogonal to rhis series,
| and should be posted separately.
| 

You are right that its not strictly tied to this patchset. init was
dropping SIGKILL before too.

So, should I just post separately or drop altogether ?

Sukadev
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