Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:08:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: wes@softweyr.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? Message-ID: <199908251908.MAA08698@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990825092143.C18970@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Aug 25, 99 09:21:44 am
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> [Cc's trimmed] > > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 12:15:24AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > > > How 'bout "anyone who can kill the process holding the lock?" > > > > > > + file owner ( + root ). > > > > Which processes can't root kill? > > Zombies? :) Kill their parents. Eventually, you will get init to reap the process status. Not that this matters, of course, since a zombie has already engaged in resource tracking cleanup via _exit(). 8-p. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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