[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.
> 
I have a machine that boots from floppy and mounts everything by nfs.

As root, I tried
kill 1
kill -KILL 1

with no visible effect: no messages, either on my screen or the log. 
System's still running. ps shows init is still there.



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