Messages in this thread |  | | From | Snow Cat <> | Subject | Re: Behavior under swap catastrophe? | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 1997 22:38:57 -0800 (PST) |
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Olaf Titz once wrote: > > If init ever dies, the system is toast and needs the reset button. > Even a clean shutdown is impossible, since nothing will wait() for > exited processes, their process table slots and therefore their > working directories remain in zombie state, and umount fails. >
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