Re: Documentation for CLONE_NEWPID

Serge E. Hallyn
2008-11-26T17:08:51Z

Quoting Michael Kerrisk (mtk.manpages-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org):
> Hi Serge,
> > I assume you've considered the pros and cons of mentioning
> > signal semantics with respect to init tasks of child pid namespaces,
> > and decided it's not worth mentioning yet as the semantics are not
> > yet finalized?
> >
> > The goal is to treat the process as a system-wide init with respect
> > to signals coming from its own namespace, and treat it as an ordinary
> > task for signals coming from its ancestor namespaces. But as you've
> > probably read, the implementation may result in some unfortunate
> > side-effects regarding blocked signals etc.
>
> No I haven't considered this at all. Could you provide some pointers
> to relevant discussions on this?

The discussions are going on right now on lkml (see for instance
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/15/124). But I think Nadia has already
written something up. Nadia, could you send what you have to
Michael?

thanks,
-serge