Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:15:13 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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Could we make the the death of init special? so that it leaves a ghost behind that can at least prevent the folling oppses?
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Rob Hagopian wrote: > > > I missed that message along the line... For pure cleanliness, I think that > > 'kill -9 1' should be blocked in userspace tools. It does make much more > > sense there. > > the kernel assumes on some places that a process _always_ has a parent. So > it can always blindly dereference p->p_pptr. So if we kill init, we will > immediatelly have a nasty set of oopses. It's also a matter of how mildly > Linux/hardware bugs escalate when we get an oops. (if a very rare oops > happens to hit init, the system dies horribly with a storm of oopses, > possibly making the identification of the former oops harder) > > -- mingo > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html >
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