Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 18, 2013 5:46 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Which init system for Debian? by luto
Parent article: Which init system for Debian?

how would a 'signal the entire subtree' that was still racy with processes forking be any better than what we have today?

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 18, 2013 6:04 UTC (Mon) by luto (guest, #39314) [Link]

That part wouldn't (but you can still call the kill function in a loop).

The benefit is that this would be simple, wouldn't require privilege, and wouldn't require that the One True Cgroup Hierarchy (TM) actually matched the systemd hierarchy. (I have a production system with a cgroup hierarchy that does not match the hierarchy that systemd would come up with. I could probably come up with a mostly equivalent hierarchy that would match, but I don't think that I should need to.)

(You can currently get a working unprivileged service manager because systemd creates /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/user/UID.user owned by UID. This seems like a suboptimal solution.)