On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:51:30PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> | No. They have are not special from the outside namespace.
> I agree that they should not be. But they are special today in at least one
> respect - terminating a container-init will terminate all processes in the
> container even those that are in unrelated process groups.

This is part of the definition.

> Secondly, a poorly written container-inits can take the entire container down,
> So we expect that container-inits to handle/ignore all signals rather than
> SIG_DFL them. Current global inits do that today and container-inits should
> too. It does not look like an unreasonable requirement.

So you intend to workaround tools which are used as container-init but
does not qualify for this work. Why?

> So the basic requirements are:
> 
>       - container-init receives/processes all signals from ancestor namespace.
>       - container-init ignores fatal signals from own namespace.
> 
> We are simplifying the first to say that:
> 
>       - parent-ns must have a way to terminate container-init
>       - cinit will ignore SIG_DFL signals that may terminate cinit even if
>         they come from parent ns

This is no simplification. This are more constraints.

Bastian

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