On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:30:49AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 01:30:09PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > If UML is not run by a shell it can happen that UML
> > will kill unrelated proceses upon a fatal exit because
> > it issues a kill(0, ...).
> > To prevent such oddities we create a new session in main().
> > 
> > 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 "debug segv" test script that I previously
> posted on the user-mode-linux mailing list, and this problem is now
> fixed.  Therefore:
> 
> Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks for these great fixes!

I've been using these 4 patches rebased on top of successive Linux
HEAD's for nearly a month, and they work great.

But they don't seem to be going upstream, and they are necessary for
people who want to use the UML backend with libguestfs (which has
garnered some interest).  Anything I can do to help this happen?

Rich.

-- 
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