From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:55:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080316225534.5f7dc339@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080316230346.GA379@tv-sign.ru>
> Well, I think the generic "if we have a chance to survive, we should try
> to survive" rule is good.
>
> If the boot init dies, at least the admin has a chance to figure out what
> has happened, and -o remount,ro /.
A long long time ago someone posted a patch which arranged that if the
init process died it got respawned via the same list of process names as
happens on boot.
Or for that matter we could catch the dying init and replace it with a
kernel side while(1) wait(NULL); so that we at least continue the cleanup.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-16 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-16 15:54 [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-16 22:19 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-16 22:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-03-16 23:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-16 22:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-03-16 23:32 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-16 23:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-16 23:59 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-17 0:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <1205850955.6466.61.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>
2008-03-18 15:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-29 5:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-29 10:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] <a83rs-N7-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <a89wR-8k4-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <a8a9t-1pV-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <a8aCw-2hv-31@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-03-18 17:41 ` Bodo Eggert
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