Re: For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page

Vasily Kulikov
2013-02-28T14:24:48Z

Hi Michael,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:24 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> The namespace init process
> The first process created in a new namespace (i.e., the process
> created using clone(2) with the CLONE_NEWPID flag, or the first
> child created by a process after a call to unshare(2) using the
> CLONE_NEWPID flag) has the PID 1, and is the "init" process for
> the namespace (see init(1)). Children that are orphaned within
> the namespace will be reparented to this process rather than
> init(1).

Probably it worth noting here that this is true unless
prctl() with PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER option is called.

Thanks,

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