Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ptrace() and kernel tasks | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 12 May 1999 10:57:36 +0200 |
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Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> writes:
|> On Tue, 11 May 1999 20:51:26 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: |> > |> >zack@rabi.columbia.edu said: |> >> IIRC your problem had to do with sysrq killall - maybe that's |> >> different? in particular, sysrq sync is handled by kflushd, if it's |> >> dead it won't do anything. |> > |> >SysRq "killall" doesn't hurt, but SysRq "killall even init" does. |> >Also, if I boot with init=/bin/bash and then accidentally close the first |> >bash, the system dies. I don't think it's because kflushd is getting killed. |> |> I just did some experiments. `killall even init' does indeed render |> my machine dead to all inputs.
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that `killall even init' clobbers the pid of init.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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