Re: malicious filesystems (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM

[Oleg Nesterov]

I am sorry for being completely off-topic, but

Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>
> SIGKILL won't work on a stopped task.  Neither on a traced task.

Why do you think so? It works in both cases (ptracer can use
PT_TRACE_EXIT, but the task is killed anyway).

> Neither on a zombie (how many newbies are thoroughly confused about
> that ;)

This is true. Unless this zombie is a group leader, and we have other
threads.

Oleg.

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