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Subjectsending signal to a kernel thread
[root@amol 5]# ps -ef | grep kswapd | grep -v grep
root 5 0 0 Apr04 ? 00:00:49
[kswapd]

[root@amol 5]# kill -9 5
[root@amol 5]#

[root@amol 5]# pwd
/proc/5

[root@amol 5]# cat status
Name: kswapd
State: S (sleeping)
Tgid: 0
Pid: 5
PPid: 0
TracerPid: 0
Uid: 0 0 0 0
Gid: 0 0 0 0
FDSize: 32
Groups:
SigPnd: 0000000000000100
SigBlk: ffffffffffffffff
SigIgn: 0000000000000000
SigCgt: 0000000000000000
CapInh: 0000000000000000
CapPrm: 00000000ffffffff
CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
----------------------------------------

Is it ok to at all permit sending signal to kernel
thread ?


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