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authorNiklas Hambüchen2017-10-14 04:31:57 +0200
committerNiklas Hambüchen2017-10-14 04:46:13 +0200
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parentunshare: Add --kill-child option. (diff)
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unshare: Allow passing <signame> to --kill-child
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/unshare.1 b/sys-utils/unshare.1
index 420b48b73..65dc55ce9 100644
--- a/sys-utils/unshare.1
+++ b/sys-utils/unshare.1
@@ -138,10 +138,11 @@ by bind mount.
Fork the specified \fIprogram\fR as a child process of \fBunshare\fR rather than
running it directly. This is useful when creating a new PID namespace.
.TP
-.BR \-\-kill\-child
-When \fBunshare\fR terminates, have \fBSIGKILL\fR be sent to the forked child process.
+.BR \-\-kill\-child [ =\fIsigname ]
+When \fBunshare\fR terminates, have \fIsigname\fP be sent to the forked child process.
Combined with \fB--pid\fR this allows for an easy and realiable killing of the entire
process tree below \fBunshare\fR.
+If not given, \fIsigname\fP defaults to \fBSIGKILL\fR.
This option implies \fB--fork\fR.
.TP
.BR \-\-mount\-proc [ =\fImountpoint ]