Re: SKAS3: prerelease of V8 (against 2.6.9) uploaded

Rob Landley wrote:
| If a kill -9 needs to be followed by a CONT signal to actually take
effect on
| a stopped process, why is this not a kernel bug?  (Kill -9 is supposed to
| _mean_ it.  I've always thought of it as the "with shotgun" option...)
|
| Rob

I believe there were PTRACE changes in 2.6.9 that caused this:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109877438509709&w=2

Frank
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