> [Cc's trimmed]
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 12:15:24AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> > > >
> > > > How 'bout "anyone who can kill the process holding the lock?"
> > >
> > > + file owner ( + root ).
> >
> > Which processes can't root kill?
>
> Zombies? :)
Kill their parents. Eventually, you will get init to reap the
process status.
Not that this matters, of course, since a zombie has already
engaged in resource tracking cleanup via _exit().
8-p.
Terry Lambert
te...@lambert.org
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