Jails getting stuck in existence

[Andras GELANYI]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:20:28 +0200, Peter Schuller
<peter.schuller at infidyne.com> wrote:
> something I have noticed several times is that sometimes jails won't
> die. That is, you start them and they show up as normal with jls. After
> stopping them, they sometimes hang on in the output of jls even though,
> judging by ps, there is not a single process running that belongs to the
> jail.
> 
> Sometimes it seems to drop off after some considerable amount of time;
> not sure if this is the case always.

jails are up until the assigned resources are in use. this means that even
a stucked (eg. time_wait state) socket can force the jail to be alive
regardless of what ps says.