Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] Protect cinit from fatal signals

Bastian Blank
2008-12-02T12:06:18Z

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:21:12PM -0800, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> Container-inits are special in some ways and this change requires SIGKILL
> to terminate them.

No. They have are not special from the outside namespace.

Also it was discussed to use pid namespaces to preserve the local pid of
a process during snapshot/restore. This means that every process may get
the state of a container-init. And then it is not longer a wise idea to
make them behave different from the outside.

Bastian

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