linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] userns: Allow unprivileged reboot

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Message-ID: <87vcbo15k4.fsf@xmission.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:29:15 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] userns: Allow unprivileged reboot

Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com> writes:

> In a container with its own pid namespace and user namespace, rebooting
> the system won't reboot the host, but terminate all the processes in
> it and thus have the container shutdown, so it's safe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>

Applied to my development tree.  It will eventaully make it to my
for-next branch.

Eric
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