Re: [PATCH 5/6] tty/sysrq: Add configurable handler to signal a process

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On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 03:59:17PM +0200, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
> Some userland might want to implement a policy to signal a configured
> process with a configured signal. This patch adds necessary kernel-side
> infrastructure and the newly added handler is triggered with
> Alt-Shift-SysRq-s. Optionally the userland can also specify the expected
> name of parent process of the victim.

THat's crazy, what "userspace" wants to do something like this that
can't just do it by running a program?  Why force the kernel to do it
for them?

And you don't document any of this :(

greg k-h



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