Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:50:12 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig) |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Count one for the complaints, but I want more to overrule a published > standard. > > (Of course, a language lawyer will call "self" a "system process", > although I cannot for the life of me really see what kind of excuse we > would come up with to do se ;)
Root doing a kill -1 -9 is definitely doing system administration, hence it is a "system process." I never do this as a user, but think about what happens at shutdown time. At least a root process ought to survive this.
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