From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 10:22:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B3E37B401 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f1KIMKh14523; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:22:20 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:22:20 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Josh Paetzel Cc: Anish A Patankar , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doubt about init process.. In-Reply-To: <00e801c098b2$089a3b60$6100000a@vladsempire.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Josh Paetzel wrote: > Killing init does essentially kills the system. Unlike a traditional > Unix system, FreeBSD does not allow anyone to kill init, as there are > more graceful ways to shut the system down. It's a feature, not a bug. Oh, absolutely -- there's an explicit panic if init dies, as there is a lot of special casing of pid 1. Probably bad, but it's there none-the-less. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message