[PATCH] Protect inetd and cron from being killed under high-pressure swapping

[Ed Schouten]

That would be very useful. That would allow us to run gettys inside  
jails as well.

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On 25 nov 2009, at 18:14, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:

> Bernd Walter wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:26:37PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>> On 2009-Nov-17 21:35:34 +0000, Rui Paulo <rpaulo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:02:08 +0100,
>>>>> Attilio Rao wrote:
>>>>>> This simple patch protects inetd and cron from being killed under
>>>>>> high-pressure swapping systems:
>>>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/Sandvine/STABLE_8/madvised/madvised.diff
>>>> Yes, the idea is good, but should we really trust inetd and crond  
>>>> that much ?
>>>> Are there other daemons that do this?
>>> As an alternative approach, how about placing a wrapper process  
>>> around
>>> them which will restart them if they die?  init(8) unofficially  
>>> provides
>>> this (I've used it in the past) - maybe we should formalise this.
>> init(8) is nice, but not an option within jails.
>
> we are considering whether a jail should have its own init...
>
>
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