[X4U] Re: Parental control software for Mac?

[Stroller]

On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:31 am, Eugene wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 07:25:26PM CST, Stroller 
> <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> :
> : On Dec 10, 2005, at 11:25 pm, TjL wrote:
> : >
> : >disagree all you want, but even finding out a process' path
> : >is complicated in Windows Task Manager.  And even if you find
> : >it and kill it, another process may automatically restart it.
> :
> : lolol.
> :
> : And what's to stop another process restarting the one you've just
> : killed in OS X?
> : Lots of daemons have this behaviour in Unix.
>
> kill -9

I fail to see how that stops ANOTHER process restarting the one you've 
just killed.

$ cat ./foo.sh
#!/bin/bash

yes > /dev/null
933 ~ $ ps | grep -e yes -e foo.sh
  9991 std  R+     0:00.00 grep -e yes -e foo.sh
934 ~ $ ./foo.sh &
[1] 9992
935 ~ $ ps | grep -e yes -e foo.sh
  9992 std  S      0:00.01 bash ./foo.sh
  9993 std  R      0:01.64 yes
  9995 std  S+     0:00.00 grep -e yes -e foo.sh
936 ~ $ kill -9 9992 9993
[1]+  Killed                  ./foo.sh
937 ~ $
937 ~ $ ps | grep -e yes -e foo.sh
  9997 std  S+     0:00.00 grep -e yes -e foo.sh
938 ~ $ ./foo.sh &
[1] 9998
939 ~ $ ps | grep -e yes -e foo.sh
  9998 std  S      0:00.01 bash ./foo.sh
  9999 std  R      0:01.53 yes
10001 std  R+     0:00.00 grep -e yes -e foo.sh
940 ~ $

Obviously you can kill THAT process - the one that's doing the 
restarting (simulated in this instance by me at the keyboard) - but I 
don't see why you can't do that in Windows, too.

Stroller.