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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:33:21 +0300
From: Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] killing processes
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:03:43PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
> If you are running as hostowner you can use Kill (capital K) which
> chmods the file first:
> 
> chmod 666 /proc/868/ctl;echo kill > /proc/868/ctl
> 
> This will not work for factotum as it marks itself as private,
> [perhaps this is a bug - private need not chmod of ctl is impossible?]

I noticed that, too.
Any user process can make its memory private, and then the hostowner
has to reboot the machine in order to kick it out.
Am I wrong about this ?

Regards,
Adi