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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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Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
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"And now for something completely different."

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-03  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ 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

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