Messages in this thread |  | | From | Stefan Reinauer <> | Subject | Security flaw when killing a process? | Date | Wed, 07 Aug 1996 15:56:00 +0200 |
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Hello,
Just one thing I noticed:
I have a very bad CDROM-Drive that often refuses work. When I try to mount the drive, the mount-process hangs somewhere in executing kernel routines because the CD- Drive does not answer. It surely takes 20 minutes until Linux stops the tries to mount the drive. During this time it's not possible to kill the mount process. Not even with a kill -9 PID.
When I do a shutdown then, Linux shuts down with a mount timeout and does an fsck over all my harddisks neccessarily when booting the next time.
My question: It seems that a process can't be killed while executing system routines. Is this right/wrong? If this was changed, would it be a security flaw if some- one can disturb the execution of system routines?
Stefan.
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