| Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:09:14 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] make vfork killable/restartable/traceable |
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On 08/10, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > CLONE_VFORK sleeps in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE until the child exits/execs. > > This is obviously not good, it is sooo simple to create the task which > > doesn't react to SIGKILL/SIGSTOP. > > > > Questions: > > > > - do we really need this? > > > I believe we should fix it. I was always claiming "if it does not > react to SIGKILL, it is a kernel bug" and well, this just proved me > wrong...
Agreed.
Just in case... sorry to all for delay, I am busy. I'll try to resend the simplified version "soon", at least the "unkillable" part. And we also have the pending oom issues...
Oleg.
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