Re: usage of kill_pid and family

i've been away for a few days and hence the late update On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pavan... On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 22:09, Pavan Savoy pavan_sa...@sify.com wrote: Hi, I use kill_pid in one of our drivers to signal a user-space

usage of kill_pid and family

Hi, I use kill_pid in one of our drivers to signal a user-space daemon to perform a particular action (open-UART for instance), I recently ran into problems with permissions as to when a user with stranger UID started open up a device, which internally calls the kill_pid in that context, could

Re: usage of kill_pid and family

Hi Pavan... On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 22:09, Pavan Savoy pavan_sa...@sify.com wrote: Hi, I use kill_pid in one of our drivers to signal a user-space daemon to perform a particular action (open-UART for instance), I recently ran into problems with permissions as to when a user with stranger UID