Re: For review: pid_namespaces(7) man page

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> [CC += Lennart]
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Vasily Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:24 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>>>    The namespace init process
>>>>        The first process created in a new namespace (i.e., the process
>>>>        created using clone(2) with the CLONE_NEWPID flag, or the first
>>>>        child created by a process after a call to unshare(2) using the
>>>>        CLONE_NEWPID flag) has the PID 1, and is the "init" process for
>>>>        the namespace (see init(1)).  Children that are orphaned within
>>>>        the namespace will be reparented to this  process  rather  than
>>>>        init(1).
>>>
>>> Probably it worth noting here that this is true unless
>>> prctl() with PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER option is called.
>>
>> Thanks Vasily. It probably is worth mentioning that, and I will add some words.
>>
>> One thing I am not sure of (have not tested), but maybe you (or Eric)
>> know the answer: does the effect of PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER  cross a
>> PID namespace boundary?
>
> No.

Thanks for the clarification, Eric. I'll note that point in the page.

Cheers,

Michael


>> In other words, if it was a process in the
>> parent PID namespace that employed PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER , will that
>> affect child processes in a child PID namespace, or  wiill
>> PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER  only apply to child processes in the same PID
>> namespace as the caller?
>
> With respect to reparenting it acts like an additional pid namespace
> init is on the path.
>
> If you want to read the code it is in kernel/exit.c:find_new_reaper().
> called from forget_original_parent, which does the actual reparenting.
>
> Eric
>



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