On Jan 10, ChangZhuo Chen <czc...@debian.org> wrote: > dumb-init is a simple process supervisor and init system designed to run > as PID 1 inside minimal container environments (such as Docker). It is a > deployed as a small, statically-linked binary written in C. While I can see how distributing statically-linked binaries fits in the sad culture of ignorance that programmers improvising themselves sysadmins have developed over the last few years (AKA "devops"), I do not think that it would be appropriate for Debian (euphemism, see Policy 10.1): the program should be linked with glibc as usual.
> However, omitting an init system often leads to incorrect handling of > processes and signals, and can result in problems such as containers > which can't be gracefully stopped, or leaking containers which should > have been destroyed. Yes, not having an init process is stupid... (See above. :-) ) -- ciao, Marco
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