On 05/23, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I want to point out that we need to consider not just SIGKILL, but > SIGABRT that causes a coredump, as well as the process peforming > an ordinary exit(2). All of which will cause get_signal to return > SIGKILL in this context. Yes, but probably SIGABRT/exit doesn't really differ from SIGKILL wrt vhost_worker(). > It is probably not the worst thing in the world, but what this means > is now if you pass a copy of the vhost file descriptor to another > process the vhost_worker will persist, and thus the process will persist > until that copy of the file descriptor is closed. Hadn't thought about it. I am fighting with internal bugzillas today, will try to write another email tomorrow. But before that, I would like to have an answer to my "main" question in my previois email. Otherwise I am still not sure I understand what exactly we need to fix. Oleg. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
