From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:50:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C1DB1C4.316EC802@idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112141237470.3063-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Count one for the complaints, but I want more to overrule a published
> standard.
>
> (Of course, a language lawyer will call "self" a "system process",
> although I cannot for the life of me really see what kind of excuse we
> would come up with to do se ;)
Root doing a kill -1 -9 is definitely doing system administration,
hence it is a "system process." I never do this as a user,
but think about what happens at shutdown time. At least a
root process ought to survive this.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-17 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-14 17:34 [PATCH] kill(-1,sig) Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-14 20:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-17 9:34 ` Chris Wright
2001-12-17 14:41 ` vda
2001-12-17 11:53 ` Sean Hunter
2001-12-17 12:06 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2001-12-17 12:30 ` Sean Hunter
2001-12-17 12:16 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-12-17 16:06 ` vda
2001-12-14 20:36 ` Simon Kirby
2001-12-14 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-14 20:49 ` Simon Kirby
2001-12-15 10:19 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-15 14:03 ` Martin Josefsson
2001-12-15 23:09 ` Simon Kirby
2001-12-16 8:26 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-17 8:50 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2001-12-17 20:51 ` Udo A. Steinberg
2001-12-17 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-17 22:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-12-18 17:27 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-14 21:22 Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-17 7:01 Richard Gooch
2001-12-17 11:41 ` vda
2001-12-17 16:41 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-17 23:38 Andries.Brouwer
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