On Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:48:37 +0200, John Wood said: > that exec and the child crashes is mitigated. The only drawback here, as > point Andi, is that a supervisor respawns some process killed. To avoid > this situation he suggest to notify to usersapace via wait* that the > task has been killed by "brute". Then, this supervisor has the chance to > do what they need (respawn or not).
And how does the kernel know that it's notifying a "real" supervisor process, and not a process started by the bad guy, who can receive the notification and decide to respawn?
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