[plug] What happens...

[John Summerfield]

> 
> I would assume that the kernel has code that prevents certain signal
> actions from occurring to PID 1, hence the kernel will deliver signals
> such as "SIGHUP", but will not perform the SIGKILL action on init.
> 

The kernel is NOT the right place for this. More likely, init traps 
everything it is able to.

My speculation is that the system will simply reboot.

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