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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 17:22:15 +0100
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing root-owned process starting with @

* Helmut Grohne:

> In this context allowing user processes to not be killed merely by
> changing their name could cause data loss during shutdown by
> blocking umount.

Does that actually work?  If so, it's a funcitonality bug that should
be fixed.

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