Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Date | 13 Aug 1998 12:23:56 +0200 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980812214738.6598D-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, David S. Miller wrote: >> I tell you that X can block SIGKILL, but you don't seem to be happy >> with that either. What's your beef? >> >> Last time I checked kernel/signal.c nobody can block SIGKILL or did >> you propose allowing this in certain limited cases?
> People seem to have a really hard time understanding.
> Can you as "davem" send a SIGKILL to me as "torvalds"? No.
He can on most Linux configurations. Just let him fill up all the virtual memory, and wait until oom() does it when the X server does its next allocation.
-Andi
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