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SubjectRe: ptrace() and kernel tasks
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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.

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Andreas Schwab "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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