From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 25 12: 9:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD76153B5 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:09:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA29091; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:08:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAATSaiH4; Wed Aug 25 12:08:42 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08698; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:08:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908251908.MAA08698@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Mandatory locking? To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:08:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: wes@softweyr.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990825092143.C18970@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Aug 25, 99 09:21:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [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? :) Kill their parents. Eventually, you will get init to reap the process status. Not that this matters, of course, since a zombie has already engaged in resource tracking cleanup via _exit(). 8-p. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message