From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 21 10:58:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from m2.bezeqint.net (m2.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A26A37B417 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-147-85.pop.bezeqint.net [212.179.147.85]) by m2.bezeqint.net (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id APD19352; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:57:50 +0200 (IST) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBLIun900955 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:56:49 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nimrodm) From: Nimrod Mesika Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:56:49 +0200 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: kill -9 -1 Message-ID: <20011221205649.A899@localhost.bsd.net.il> Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After reading some information about a recent Linux debate considering the behavior of kill with pid of -1, I decided to test the behavior of FreeBSD (the issue is whether -1 will kill the calling process or not). So I typed at the bash prompt (as a normal user, not root): $kill -9 -1 And my system died. XFree was dead but instead of going back to text mode (as if it was killed) the system was left in an unstable condition. I couldn't log-in again (at least not from the console). The screen went black and nothing worked - I couldn't switch virtual consoles, etc. Ctrl-Alt-Del did not work. I had to push the big red button... Can anyone confirm/explain this phenomena? (this is on a fairly recent -stable). -- Nimrod. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message