Merge pull request #70 from krallin/more-README

Add "Why Tini?" section in the README
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Thomas Orozco 8 years ago committed by GitHub
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@ -20,6 +20,24 @@ and wait for it to exit all the while reaping zombies and performing
signal forwarding.
Why Tini?
---------
Using Tini has several benefits:
- It protects you from software that accidentally creates zombie processes,
which can (over time!) starve your entire system for PIDs (and make it
unusable).
- It ensures that the *default signal handlers* work for the software you run
in your Docker image. For example, with Tini, `SIGTERM` properly terminates
your process even if you didn't explicitly install a signal handler for it.
- It does so completely transparently! Docker images that work without Tini
will work with Tini without any changes.
If you'd like more detail on why this is useful, review this issue discussion:
[What is advantage of Tini?][0].
Using Tini
----------
@ -225,6 +243,7 @@ Special thanks to:
+ [Asko Soukka][41] for packaging Tini for Nix
[0]: https://github.com/krallin/tini/issues/8
[10]: https://github.com/krallin/tini-images
[20]: https://github.com/krallin/
[30]: https://github.com/tianon

@ -20,6 +20,24 @@ and wait for it to exit all the while reaping zombies and performing
signal forwarding.
Why Tini?
---------
Using Tini has several benefits:
- It protects you from software that accidentally creates zombie processes,
which can (over time!) starve your entire system for PIDs (and make it
unusable).
- It ensures that the *default signal handlers* work for the software you run
in your Docker image. For example, with Tini, `SIGTERM` properly terminates
your process even if you didn't explicitly install a signal handler for it.
- It does so completely transparently! Docker images that work without Tini
will work with Tini without any changes.
If you'd like more detail on why this is useful, review this issue discussion:
[What is advantage of Tini?][0].
Using Tini
----------
@ -225,6 +243,7 @@ Special thanks to:
+ [Asko Soukka][41] for packaging Tini for Nix
[0]: https://github.com/krallin/tini/issues/8
[10]: https://github.com/krallin/tini-images
[20]: https://github.com/krallin/
[30]: https://github.com/tianon

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