Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755562AbZALQWj (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:22:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752942AbZALQWa (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:22:30 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:58464 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752377AbZALQWa (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:22:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:22:09 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard! Message-ID: <20090112162209.GB7046@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Evgeniy Polyakov , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds References: <20090112153304.GA19995@ioremap.net> <20090112154922.6003750b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090112155030.GA21063@ioremap.net> <20090112155239.5f677a17@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090112155615.GA21350@ioremap.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090112155615.GA21350@ioremap.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1028 Lines: 25 On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 06:56:15PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:52:39PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote: > > > Which has to be checked for every process ever created, > > > which is quite unfeasible in some conditions. > > > > The task name is not a reliable indicator of true name and truncated so > > is useless. You only nominate one task, you don't integrate with the > > existing interface. > > Not one, but tasks which have the given string in the name. Like script > names spawned at DoS time. There is also the problem that process names aren't unique. If the process table contains two entries called 'Kenny', there's nothing that says they came from the same executable. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/