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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:43:29PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > This is straying from the core issue... But, Arjan's saying that an RT > > (non-root) task could trash the filesystem if it deadlocks the machine > > (because those important fs and IO threads don't run). > > Lexicographic ambiguity: Lee and Paul are using "trash" for things > like installing a hidden suid root shell or co-opting sendmail into an > open spam relay. Arjan just means crashing the system which forces > reboot to run fsck. I actually meant data corruption. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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