On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:
> > I missed that message along the line... For pure cleanliness, I think that
> > 'kill -9 1' should be blocked in userspace tools. It does make much more
> > sense there.
>
> Kill and sigsend and other varieties are system calls. You would be naive to
> trying blocking it in libc -- libc is not capable of defending against such things.
>
> You could statically link a "rogue" program to 'kill -9 1' or you could simply
> write the ASM code neccessary to call the syscall.
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