pspace child_reaper

Cedric Le Goater clg at fr.ibm.com
Wed Aug 30 06:03:22 PDT 2006


Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>>> But don't confuse /sbin/init with the reaper.  /sbin/init will only know
>>> about pids in it's own container, so if we do need to call to userspace
>>> for every task which the reaper hears about, then we will need a
>>> per-container reaper.  But if that's not the case (and i haven't seen
>>> where it is), then userspace is simply not involved, and so one global
>>> reaper suffices, since it will know not about pid_ts but about struct
>>> pids == (container,pid_t).
>> First I don't remember the details but there was at least one
>> case where the vserver guys hit an application that cared.
> 
> If that's the case, then per-container reaper it is.
> 
> Herbert, do you recall which software that was?

I'm not sure herbert is on the list.

C.




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