From e079f684994b3fcc8016bd5dd26caa091d35f7b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 21:27:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] blurb about auditing pid1 code --- papers/pid1.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/papers/pid1.mdwn b/papers/pid1.mdwn index 39d6f9e..ad8e8d5 100644 --- a/papers/pid1.mdwn +++ b/papers/pid1.mdwn @@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ to runit at the light end, managing only the starting and stopping of supervisors, which themselves manage the daemons. +Incidentally, +the threat of kernel panic and immediate halting +is why some people +(myself included) +feel PID1 should be very simple and easy to check for bugs. + How Runit Manages Daemons ==================