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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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