From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265161AbUHCIoo (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 04:44:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265245AbUHCIoo (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 04:44:44 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:26324 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265161AbUHCIom (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Aug 2004 04:44:42 -0400 To: Alan Cox Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: OLS and console rearchitecture References: <20040802142416.37019.qmail@web14923.mail.yahoo.com> <410E55AA.8030709@ums.usu.ru> <1091468401.806.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: ..I just walked into th' HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES with fourteen WET DOLPHINS and an out-of-date MARRIAGE MANUAL... Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:44:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1091468401.806.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Alan Cox's message of "Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:40:02 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."