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exhausted. - Add a new protect(1) command that can be used to set or revoke protection from arbitrary processes. Similar to ktrace it can apply a change to all existing descendants of a process as well as future descendants. - Add a new procctl(2) system call that provides a generic interface for control operations on processes (as opposed to the debugger-specific operations provided by ptrace(2)). procctl(2) uses a combination of idtype_t and an id to identify the set of processes on which to operate similar to wait6(). - Add a PROC_SPROTECT control operation to manage the protection status of a set of processes. MADV_PROTECT still works for backwards compatability. - Add a p_flag2 to struct proc (and a corresponding ki_flag2 to kinfo_proc) the first bit of which is used to track if P_PROTECT should be inherited by new child processes. Reviewed by: kib, jilles (earlier version) Approved by: re (delphij) MFC after: 1 month
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.\" Copyright (c) 2013 Advanced Computing Technologies LLC
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.\" Written by: John H. Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd September 19, 2013
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.Dt PROTECT 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm protect
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.Nd "protect processes from being killed when swap space is exhausted"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl i
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.Ar command
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.Nm
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.Op Fl cdi
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.Fl g Ar pgrp | Fl p Ar pid
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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command is used to mark processes as protected.
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The kernel does not kill protected processes when swap space is exhausted.
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Note that this protected state is not inherited by child processes by default.
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.Pp
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The options are:
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Fl c
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Remove protection from the specified processes.
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.It Fl d
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Apply the operation to all current children of the specified processes.
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.It Fl i
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Apply the operation to all future children of the specified processes.
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.It Fl g Ar pgrp
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Apply the operation to all processes in the specified process group.
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.It Fl p Ar pid
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Apply the operation to the specified process.
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.It Ar command
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Execute
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.Ar command
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as a protected process.
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.El
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.Pp
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Note that only one of the
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.Fl p
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or
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.Fl g
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flags may be specified when adjusting the state of existing processes.
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.Sh EXIT STATUS
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.Ex -std
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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Mark the Xorg server as protected:
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.Pp
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.Dl "pgrep Xorg | xargs protect -p"
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Protect all ssh sessions and their child processes:
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.Pp
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.Dl "pgrep sshd | xargs protect -dip"
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Remove protection from all current and future processes:
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.Pp
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.Dl "protect -cdi -p 1"
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr pprotect 2
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.Sh BUGS
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If you protect a runaway process that allocates all memory the system will
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deadlock.
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.Pp
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Inheritance of the protected state is not yet implemented.
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