From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 18:31:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.35.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E1B37B401; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:31:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from patankar@localhost) by pollux.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f1H2Vh514094; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:31:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:31:43 -0500 (EST) From: Anish A Patankar To: , , , , , , , , , , Subject: doubt about init process.. 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 The init process on FreeBSD is a user-level process (as opposed to a kernel-level process) that, other than having been started by the kernel itself as part of system startup, reacts just like any other process on the system. However if you send init the SIGKILL signal, even as root, init does not die? Can you please tell me why this is so?? Thanks Anish. ============================================================================= Anish Patankar Graduate Teaching Assistant Computer Science and Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo Tel: O- (716) 645-3771 H- (716) 835-9951 ============================================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message