Hi Ian, I can't really recall this old discussion, so I can be easily wrong...
On 03/24, Ian Kent wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-11-18 at 18:28 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > IOW. Please the the "patch" below. It is obviously incomplete and > > wrong, > > and it can be more clear/clean. And probably we need another API. Just > > to explain what I mean. I hope you didn't miss this part ;) In particular, we want to turn task_work_add(..., bool notify) into task_work_add(..., how_to_notify mask) and this "mask" should allow to force TIF_SIGPENDING. > > With this patch call_usermodehelper(..., UMH_IN_MY_NS) should do exec > > from the caller's namespace. > > Umm ... I don't think this can work. > > I don't think it can be assumed that the init process of a container > will behave like an init process. > > If you try and do this with a Docker container that has /bin/bash as the > init process signals never arrive and work doesn't start until some > other signal arrives only if it blocks/ignores SIGCHLD? But this doesn't matter, see above and note the "until we have task_work_add_interruptibel()" in the pseudo-code I showed. > I probably don't understand what's actually going on, this is just my > impression of what I'm seeing. Or perhaps it is me who misunderstands your concerns. Oleg.