From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Does Linux process exist information leakage?
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:23:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F187BC4.4040001@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff80b878-eadf-4644-a84b-072a1e0563b0@email.android.com>
On 01/11/2012 01:44 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> When a linux process dies, it first becomes a zombie and the parent process is signaled.
>
> The parent process at that point can still do various things. If the parent is a debugger, it can get all sorts of details from the zombie.
>
> When the parent acknowledges the death of child signal, the zombie is really killed and removed from the system tables, etc.
The memory of a process is freed before it becomes a zombie.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-19 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 12:53 Does Linux process exist information leakage? 夏业添
2012-01-11 16:23 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2012-01-11 16:45 ` Dave Hylands
2012-01-11 17:52 ` Scott Lovenberg
2012-01-12 2:14 ` 夏业添
2012-01-12 17:00 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2012-01-16 18:19 ` Scott Lovenberg
2012-01-16 23:45 ` Jonathan Neuschäfer
2012-01-19 14:47 ` Scott Lovenberg
2012-01-16 18:45 ` Greg Freemyer
2012-01-16 20:44 ` Scott Lovenberg
2012-01-12 2:05 ` 夏业添
2012-01-11 18:44 ` Greg Freemyer
2012-01-19 20:23 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
[not found] ` <CAOfVmNFuBCjWb7-5rJaU7ksgcU8LyAW15JiEwa2PigZL3zC0aw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-12 2:30 ` 夏业添
2012-01-18 1:53 ` Fredrick
[not found] ` <CAOfVmNFN-GLDwkfLKG11iw7-p6KerDmyoMxV1oSD5WSYJMXc0g@mail.gmail.com>
2012-01-18 11:43 ` beyond.hack
2012-01-19 1:27 ` 夏业添
2012-01-19 7:12 ` SaNtosh kuLkarni
2012-01-19 8:37 ` SaNtosh kuLkarni
2012-01-20 6:52 ` Fredrick
2012-01-19 14:48 ` Scott Lovenberg
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