On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:51:34PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:29:25PM -0000, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Secondly: I think this approach is unnecessarily complex. I think it's > sufficient to simply check whether the target process is in the right > process group before sending a signal, i.e. getpgid(pid) == getpgrp(). > This ensures that the parent will only kill things it created.
I actually thought avoiding this was a design goal, to prevent someone from killing piped loggers and cgi processes ? -- Colm MacCárthaigh Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
