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Re: Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @

From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 17:22:15 +0100

* Helmut Grohne:

In this context allowing user processes to not be killed merely by
changing their name could cause data loss during shutdown by
blocking umount.


Does that actually work?  If so, it's a funcitonality bug that should
be fixed.

Current thread:

Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @ Helmut Grohne (Feb 14)
- Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @ cve-assign (Feb 14)
  - Re: Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @ Helmut Grohne (Feb 14)
- Re: Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @ Florian Weimer (Feb 15)
  - Re: Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @ Helmut Grohne (Feb 16)
- Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @ Petter Reinholdtsen (Feb 15)
  - Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @ Solar Designer (Feb 15)
    - Re: Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @ Helmut Grohne (Feb 16)