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From: David Ford <david@erisksecurity.com>
To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@localhost.localdomain
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WANTED: Re: VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:51:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B7AE0D6.2090804@erisksecurity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10108131229270.27903-100000@press-gopher.uchicago.edu>    <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108131451470.6118-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> <20010814220545.D31070@pasky.ji.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108131451470.6118-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>;    from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 02:55:42PM -0300 <9lc0ek$l5k$1@ns1.clouddancer.com> <20010815193521.4DDE8783F5@mail.clouddancer.com>

Also consider that many places use randomized pids. You can only assume 
a few things about pids and that has to be done by evaluating kernel 
threads and the init pid.

David

Colonel wrote:

>>I also propose to half badness of processes with pid < 1000 - those
>>processes are usually also important, because they are called during
>>boot-time and they usually handle important system affairs.
>>
>
>The belief that boot started processes remain under a pid < 1000 is
>flawed.  Simple example: the postfix mail server.
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-15 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-13 17:47 VM lockup with 2.4.8 / 2.4.8pre8 Roy C. Bixler
2001-08-13 17:55 ` WANTED: " Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 19:04   ` Jon 'tex' Boone
2001-08-14 19:32     ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 20:05   ` Petr Baudis
2001-08-14 20:27     ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]   ` <9lc0ek$l5k$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-15 19:35     ` Colonel
2001-08-15 20:14       ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-08-15 20:51       ` David Ford [this message]
     [not found]       ` <9lelsk$bri$1@ns1.clouddancer.com>
2001-08-16  4:27         ` Colonel
2001-08-16  9:27           ` Marco Colombo
2001-08-14 19:13 ` Roy C. Bixler

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