Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: OLS and console rearchitecture | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 10:44:40 +0200 |
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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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