Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754159AbYCPWyi (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:54:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752663AbYCPWy3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:54:29 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:51317 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752445AbYCPWy3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:54:29 -0400 To: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov , Andrew Morton , Davide Libenzi , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar , Laurent Riffard , Pavel Emelyanov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed References: <20080316155453.GA20845@tv-sign.ru> <20080316221938.D217026F995@magilla.localdomain> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:54:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080316221938.D217026F995@magilla.localdomain> (Roland McGrath's message of "Sun\, 16 Mar 2008 15\:19\:38 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 15 Roland McGrath writes: > Have you tested how recoverable it really is? I wonder what happens > with init having exited when things get reparented to it. Don't the > zombies just pile up? That's not very different from any other "important" program crash, we don't sync+reboot when httpd or sshd is killed. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/