On 03/17, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
>
> > and b) permits userspace to produce surprising results in the kernel,
> > which I suspect is what we're seeing here.
>
> There is enough information for kernel side code to decide whether a
> signal came from kernel or userspace.

Not really. SIGKILL can come without siginfo. Other signals too, but
SIGKILL especially.

> Then again - it's not clear that it
> should ever have to.

Yes, agreed.

Oleg.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to