OpenVZ and the Ubuntu Upstart init daemon

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Mon Apr 9 12:42:45 BST 2007


On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 15:33 +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:

> From the other side, I do not understand why mountall.sh script sends
> a
> (USR1) signal to upstart which upstart can not receive (as there's no 
> handler).
> 
Because it was written for sysvinit.

USR1 is a strange signal that tells it to close /dev/initctl and open it
again; upstart has no fifo in /dev, so doesn't need to implement this
signal.

The default init signal semantics mean it's ignored.

Scott
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