On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 01:30:08PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
> main process receives a SIGTERM.
> This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
> in init_new_thread_signals().
> It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
> The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
> UML helper threads/processes.
> Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
> and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.
> 
> Cc: rjo...@redhat.com
> Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at>

I tested this using the libguestfs UML backend, and the original
problem with not all processes being cleared up on exit has been fixed.

I also observed that the exit status has changed from "killed by
SIGTERM" to exit code 1.  Therefore:

Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com>

Rich.

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