Re: [PATCH 4/5] don't panic if /sbin/init exits or killed

[H. Peter Anvin]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>

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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