Off topically about Re: malicious filesystems (was Re: Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway)

From: Oleg Verych
Date: Sun Jul 08 2007 - 04:16:07 EST


>> > > We can just wait for all fuse requests to be serviced before
>> > > proceeding further with freeze, right?
>> >
>> > Right. Nice way to slow down or stop the suspend with an unprivileged
>> > process. Avoiding that sort of DoS is one of the design goals of
>> > fuse.
>>
>> So you want me to handle _malicious_ filesystems now?
>
> What I'd like, is a suspend, that works reliably, regardless of the
> state of any userspace filesystem, network servers and such.

And this must be called sleep, deep sleep or something like that. Because
preparing for sleeping takes place, sleeping itself is a process, life
requires. Waking up, staying all day fresh and active is the needed goal.

Thus, whole freeze/ice idea was dead-born, IMHO :)

WRT this, busy-loop _waiting_ that was called sleep, usleep or
nanosleep is another wrong-named concept. I imagine somebody after one
minute sleep :)
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