Hi Michael, The kernel changes corresponding to his update were added to -mm on 2009-02-19. Please review and let me know if other man pages should be updated to document these semantics. --- From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:08:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Document signal-semantics changes of container-init Container-inits have some special signal semantics depending on whether the signal was sent from the same container or a parent container. These changes were implemented by the patchset: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/18/493 Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man2/clone.2 | 7 ++++++- man2/kill.2 | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2 index 5d07f7c..975b321 100644 --- a/man2/clone.2 +++ b/man2/clone.2 @@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ will produce processes with PIDs that are unique within the namespace. The first process created in a new namespace (i.e., the process created using the .BR CLONE_NEWPID -flag) has the PID 1, and is the "init" process for the namespace. +flag) has the PID 1, and is the "init" process for the namespace, +also referred to as "container-init" process. Children that are orphaned within the namespace will be reparented to this process rather than .BR init (8). @@ -405,6 +406,10 @@ Unlike the traditional process, the "init" process of a PID namespace can terminate, and if it does, all of the processes in the namespace are terminated. +See NOTES section of +.B kill(2) +for special signal semantics of the "container-init" process. + PID namespaces form a hierarchy. When a PID new namespace is created, the processes in that namespace are visible diff --git a/man2/kill.2 b/man2/kill.2 index 5cfa9a4..d0ba8bb 100644 --- a/man2/kill.2 +++ b/man2/kill.2 @@ -128,6 +128,33 @@ has explicitly installed signal handlers. This is done to assure the system is not brought down accidentally. .LP +A +.I container-init +process (i.e a process created by a call to +.I clone() +with +.I CLONE_NEWPID +flag) is also similarly immune to 'unhandled' signals +sent by a descendant process. +But the +.I container-init +recieves the unhandled signal and may terminate, if the signal is sent +by a process in the parent namespace of the +.I container-init. +i.e the +.I container-init +appears like an +.I init +process to its descendant process and they cannot accidentally terminate +the +.I container-init +and thereby, the entire pid-namespace. +But +.I container-init +appears like a normal process to another process in its parent-pid-namespace, +allowing an administrator to terminate any run-away +.I container-inits. +.LP POSIX.1-2001 requires that \fIkill(\-1,sig)\fP send \fIsig\fP to all processes that the calling process may send signals to, except possibly for some implementation-defined system processes. -- 1.5.2.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
