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SubjectRe: kill -9 <pid of X>
FromAndi Kleen <>
Date13 Aug 1998 12:23:56 +0200
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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