Thanks Suka,

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:31 -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Subrata Modak [[email protected]] wrote:
> | 
> | > > pidns21:
> | > >    The pidns21.c testcase verifies that container-init is terminated
> | > >    by SIGUSR1 when:
> | > >       - a handler is specified for SIGUSR1,
> | > >       - container-init blocks SIGUSR1,
> | > >       - parent queues SIGUSR1 and
> | > >       - handler for SIGUSR1 is set to system default before SIGUSR1 is 
> | > > unblocked.
> 
> I know I had acked this test before, but back then the actual implementation
> of the signal semantics in the kernel were not complete.
> 
> To simplify the implementation of the semantics, it was decided that
> SIGKILL/SIGSTOP would be the only reliable signals from a parent
> container. IOW, container-init would ignore SIGUSR1 or SIGINT, SIGQUIT
> etc even if sent from a parent container.
> 
> See patchset/discussion:
> 
>       http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/17/131
> 
> (which is not yet merged, but appears to be close to consensus)
> 
> The  rationale for this simplification is that any serious
> 'container-init' would explicitly SIG_IGN all signals that it is
> not interested in. So the only signals that would be in SIG_DFL
> state would be SIGKILL/SIGSTOP.
> 
> Effectively, testcase pidns21 will fail if/when the above patchset
> (specifically, patch 5/6) is merged.

Gowri,

Kindly update this test when the patch makes into next stable kernel
release.

Regards--
Subrata



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