Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:47:56 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed | |
Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> If the buggy init exits, the kernel panics. I see no point for this. It is very
> possible that the system is still usable enough, at least to read the logs and
> prepare the bug report.
>
> Change exit_child_reaper() to do BUG() instead of panic().
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
This would be highly undesirable in a production system, since it would
leave the machine an unusable zombie. In a production system, the panic
can be made to reboot the system, bringing it back online.
-hpa
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