On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> volodya@mindspring.com:
> >What about a way to tell kernel to disable clone() for all non-root
> >processes ?
> >
> >So your fuser -k does this:
> >
> > 1. disable clone
> > 2. kill
> > 3. wait for kill to complete
> > 4. reenable clone
>
> Couldn't that permit a deadlock? A process to be killed could be waiting
> for a response from a server daemon (on the same host) which can't
> respond because the server couldn't clone the slave server?? The daemon,
> of course, is not running as root (web servers... and some applications
> do this too).
Well, it could also be that the server segfaulted.. The clients should
be built sufficiently robust to withstand such situations.
Vladimir Dergachev
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