From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754826Ab1HNQVG (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:21:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13648 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753907Ab1HNQVE (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:21:04 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:17:07 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Daniel Lezcano Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, bonbons@linux-vserver.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, serge@hallyn.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Send a SIGCHLD to the init's pid namespace parent when reboot Message-ID: <20110814161707.GB30846@redhat.com> References: <1313094241-3674-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1313094241-3674-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/11, Daniel Lezcano wrote: > > In the case of a VPS, when we shutdown/halt/reboot the container, the > reboot utility will invoke the sys_reboot syscall which has the bad > effect to reboot the host. Stupid question. Can't sys_reboot() simply kill init (and thus the whole pid_ns) in this case? Oleg.