[bonzoesc]

That's so indescribably worse than just killing that process the mind boggles. Breaking in a simple, predictable, and detectable way vs. corrupting data and hoping (excuse me, "praying") nobody notices.

[kalleboo]

> vs. corrupting data and hoping (excuse me, "praying") nobody notices.

Well it seems to work for MySQL

Anyway, you wouldn't ever return the nulled data. If the process tries to access the data, THEN you crash it.