Cedric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com> writes: > I think there is some confusion here. we need a process 1 of course but it > does not have to be necessarily a user space /sbin/init process. > >> I also believe that most of the advantages of not having an init >> process can be had with a trivial (probably static) init program that >> only calls waitpid. Taking essentially no resources. > > yes that could be one solution, or doing it in a kthread. > > but leaving it up to user space to do the right thing (handle sigchld) in > the process doing the unshare seems a better solution. I believe we are in violent agreement :) Eric