Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:18:26 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kent S. Gordon" <kgor@inetspace.com> To: inf@nyef.res.cmu.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGDANGER Message-ID: <199804291518.KAA04397@soccer.inetspace.com> In-Reply-To: <19980428202638.15088@nyef.res.cmu.edu> (message from Marca Registrada on Tue, 28 Apr 1998 20:26:38 -0400)
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>>>>> "inf" == Marca Registrada <inf@nyef.res.cmu.edu> writes:
> Quoting Karl Denninger (karl@mcs.net):
>> Critical programs can either free up resources or exit, as they
>> see fit. We could also define a semantic that says that if a
>> process set SIGHOLD for that signal, then the kernel should do
>> everything in its power NOT to whack that particular process.
> BTW, I'd like to hope that only processes run as root have this
> power to elect themselves to be safe from random kills.
On some boxes, some non root process are even more importain than most
root processes. Database engines are a example of non-root processes
that I would like to exclude from random kill (I want it to be the
last process killed not the first).
--
Kent S. Gordon
Architect
iNetSpace Co.
voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com
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