Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755160AbZALQ2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:28:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752645AbZALQ2Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:28:24 -0500 Received: from cet.com.ru ([195.178.208.66]:46800 "EHLO tservice.net.ru" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752423AbZALQ2X (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:28:23 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:28:20 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Dave Jones , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard! Message-ID: <20090112162820.GA22881@ioremap.net> 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> <20090112162209.GB7046@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090112162209.GB7046@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 771 Lines: 18 On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:22:09AM -0500, Dave Jones (davej@redhat.com) wrote: > > 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. Agree, oom-killer will try to get theirs points and if they are really different applications, the 'bad' one will be killed. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- 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/