From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
To: "Mike Black" <mblack@csihq.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.7: wtf is "ksoftirqd_CPU0"
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:42:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107221642.f6MGgAfl019732@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "Mike Black" <mblack@csihq.com> of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 06:24:06 -0400." <009601c11298$70a3da80$b6562341@cfl.rr.com>
"Mike Black" <mblack@csihq.com> said:
> Actually -- is it possible (or desirable) to make ALL kernel daemons begin
> with say "_" or some other special character to distinguish them from
> userland threads? The "k......d" paradigm is OK but not very distinctive.
> That way you have a simple line in the kernel docs that says "Any process
> with a leading _ is a kernel process and should NEVER be killed or otherwise
> messed with except as noted elsewhere in the docs".
It is rather easy to fake any process name.
--
Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-22 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-21 16:08 peter k.
2001-07-21 16:15 ` peter k.
2001-07-21 16:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-21 23:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-21 23:53 ` [OT] " Tom Rini
2001-07-22 10:24 ` Mike Black
2001-07-22 15:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-07-22 16:42 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2001-07-23 14:14 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-07-22 0:23 ` Horst von Brand
2001-07-22 9:28 ` P.A.M. van Dam
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