Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 4/4] um: Run UML in it's own session.

[Richard W. <ri...@no...>]

Am 07.09.2013 14:14, schrieb Richard W.M. Jones:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:30:49AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 01:30:09PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> If UML is not run by a shell it can happen that UML
>>> will kill unrelated proceses upon a fatal exit because
>>> it issues a kill(0, ...).
>>> To prevent such oddities we create a new session in main().
>>>
>>> Cc: rj...@re...
>>> Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rj...@re...>
>>> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <ri...@no...>
>>
>> I tested this using the "debug segv" test script that I previously
>> posted on the user-mode-linux mailing list, and this problem is now
>> fixed.  Therefore:
>>
>> Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rj...@re...>
>>
>> Thanks for these great fixes!
> 
> I've been using these 4 patches rebased on top of successive Linux
> HEAD's for nearly a month, and they work great.
> 
> But they don't seem to be going upstream, and they are necessary for
> people who want to use the UML backend with libguestfs (which has
> garnered some interest).  Anything I can do to help this happen?

Sure they are.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/7/52

Thanks,
//richard