Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Total system lockup with Alt-SysRQ-L | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:00:04 +0000 |
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rmk@arm.linux.org.uk said: > Ok, can someone explain *why* it is desirable to attempt to kill pid1 > given that doing so will completely lockup the machine? (should we > rename it to "Lockup" instead of "killalL"? 8)
It's not. I believe SysRq-L was implemented while Linux would still exhibit sane behaviour upon pid1 dying, and was never removed when the current brokenness was introduced.
-- dwmw2
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