Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754611AbYKZRIB (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:08:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752381AbYKZRHx (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:07:53 -0500 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:43940 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752296AbYKZRHw (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:07:52 -0500 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:08:51 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Cc: Pavel Emelyanov , Kir Kolyshkin , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, lkml , Sukadev Bhattiprolu , Nadia Derbey Subject: Re: Documentation for CLONE_NEWPID Message-ID: <20081126170851.GA24943@hallyn.com> References: <4923810B.7010201@gmail.com> <20081123222023.GB12687@hallyn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1210 Lines: 28 Quoting Michael Kerrisk (mtk.manpages@googlemail.com): > 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 -- 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/