kill a kernel thread

Posted May 28, 2018 23:33 UTC (Mon) by liam (guest, #84133)
In reply to: kill a kernel thread by sytoka
Parent article: Killing processes that don't want to die

I believe that's one of the reasons why there have been numerous attempts to implement a revoke() syscall.

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kill a kernel thread

Posted May 28, 2018 23:51 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (1 responses)

Umm, no. revoke() is wanted for taking *devices* away from strange processes which might still be using them (like your tty or your microphone). Never intended for file systems.

kill a kernel thread

Posted Jun 6, 2018 6:45 UTC (Wed) by liam (guest, #84133) [Link]

I had this in mind:

Other potential uses exist as well; consider, for example, disconnecting a process from a file which is preventing the unmounting of a filesystem.