From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: OLS and console rearchitecture
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:44:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jevfg0fw5j.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091468401.806.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Alan Cox's message of "Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:40:02 +0100")
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> On Llu, 2004-08-02 at 17:21, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> > A configuration file for killall5 in which services/daemons get
>> > defined that should not be signalled ?
>>
>> IMHO a better solution would be some kind of process flag that can be
>> interrogated by killall5.
>
> Policy belongs in user space. This is entirely policy and personal
> preference.
The kernel would only function as a repository and makes sure the flag is
inherited across execve(). Any policy will only be set by user space.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-03 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-02 14:24 OLS and console rearchitecture Jon Smirl
2004-08-02 14:54 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2004-08-02 16:07 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-08-02 16:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-08-02 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-03 8:44 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-08-02 16:16 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-05 11:08 ` Martin Waitz
2004-08-02 18:33 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-03 0:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-05 8:56 ` Helge Hafting
2004-08-05 20:32 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-07-29 0:44 [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Ian Romanick
2004-07-29 1:19 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-29 8:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-28 18:53 Jon Smirl
2004-07-28 20:10 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 21:31 ` Kronos
2004-07-28 22:57 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Alan Cox
2004-07-30 22:19 ` Kronos
2004-07-30 23:31 ` Jon Smirl
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