previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > One sample usecase where they dont't: "the system is wedged / overcommitted > and I need to terminate some services; guess I'll start another ten processes > to do that". Yeah, right. > > I'll be nice to everybody else here and not enumerate any others.
Again that means your system is badly designed or administered without proper restraints such as nice and limits which are important for other reasons. Pkill root owned processes are hardly demanding but quite the opposite. not-well designed services should be fixed. Why should I HAVE to have any evil when I don't have ANY need for it and have much more important things depending on the kernel to be secure. "unfortunately cgroups are a necessary evil" - Linus Torvalds Should have added for a select few and others that don't know what they are doing! -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) In Other Words - Don't design like polkit or systemd _______________________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/400062.71270...@smtp120.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
