Re: The "Unix Philosophy 2020" document

From: Oliver Schad <oliver.schad_at_automatic-server.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:56:54 +0100

On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:54:07 +0100
Oliver Schad <oliver.schad_at_automatic-server.com> wrote:

> Disclaimer: this has race-conditions by design. systemd has them as
> well. No, they don't say that of course. You can't read the tasks
> atomically and change their state to stopped, freeze or whatever. So
> they always could fork away.

Sorry, I have to correct that a bit: you can use the freezer cgroup as
I did, but there is no guarantee, that you can successfully kill a
freezed process.

So you can decide:

1) race-condition
2) unkillallable processes without race-condition

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