Re: Locking a running process

Jürgen Knödlseder wrote:

> I tried to lock the process using
>echo 1 > /proc/PID/lock
>but when I check /proc/PID/lock using "more" I always find a 0 in  
>there ... 
>
Only the process itself can lock itself i.e. you can do 'echo 1 > 
/proc/$$/lock', but only process 1234 can do 'echo 1 > /proc/1234/lock'.

No, I can't see a good reason for this behaviour either.

-- 
Dr Mark Mackey
Director, Development
Cresset Biomolecular Discovery Ltd


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