>That may be so, but why does the lame Linux kernel silently ignore
>the kill() call instead of properly returning an error.
>
> Wietse
:) I don't write the code, just reporting the bad news!
I think however the reasoning is as follows: clearly a user-mode process
can send a signal to in
> > > >>> I'd appreciate it if someone could verify that this will run the
> > > >>> master daemon with PID 1, and that 'postfix stop' in the container
> > > >>> will stop the master daemon. If it doesn't, then Linux does weird
> > > >>> stuff with PID 1 processes.
Correct. The Linux kernel doesn
FWIW I agree wholeheartedly with Wietse. We switched from sendmail to
Postfix 10 years ago. The code is very professional and very stable.
That is very unusual in today's open source world.
