From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 25 6:37:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beelzebubba.sysabend.org (beelzebubba.sysabend.org [209.201.74.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817FE159BA for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 06:37:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9835141D5; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:37:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91CCB9BD1; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:37:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:37:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Wes Peters , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? In-Reply-To: <19990825092143.C18970@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> Message-ID: X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: :[Cc's trimmed] : :On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 12:15:24AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: :> > > :> > > How 'bout "anyone who can kill the process holding the lock?" :> > :> > + file owner ( + root ). :> :> Which processes can't root kill? : :Zombies? :) ps shows the parent. Kill the parent, and the zombified child dies. This ia a non issue. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message