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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:28:20 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net> To: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: Linux killed Kenny, bastard! On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:22:09AM -0500, Dave Jones (davej@...hat.com) wrote: > > Not one, but tasks which have the given string in the name. Like script > > names spawned at DoS time. > > There is also the problem that process names aren't unique. > If the process table contains two entries called 'Kenny', there's nothing > that says they came from the same executable. Agree, oom-killer will try to get theirs points and if they are really different applications, the 'bad' one will be killed. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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