fork timing hole and runaway children

Steven M. Kramer smk at axiom.UUCP
Mon Aug 26 06:34:54 AEST 1985


Rather than a system call names zonk, why not a simple program
(because the function is really too specific for a system call).  It would;

gather the output of ps to find the uid's processes,
do
{
	send SIGSTOP to all of the processes,
	gather the output of ps to find the uid's processes,
} while (ps's view of user's processes remain same || some limit is reached)

send SIGKILL to all of the processes.
-- 
	--steve kramer
	{allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!axiom!smk	(UUCP)
	linus!axiom!smk at mitre-bedford					(MIL)



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