[plug] What happens...

[Mike Holland]

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Oliver White wrote:

> what would happen if you executed the command 'killall -9 init'?

OK ... "strace kill -9 1" -> "kill(1, SIGKILL)"   (linux 2.2)
The system call gets 0 returned (successs) but nothing happens.

(Of course "kill -1 1" will reset init.)

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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