Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:44:17 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: nimrodm@email.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kill -9 -1 Message-ID: <20011221194417.GA796@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <20011221205649.A899@localhost.bsd.net.il> References: <20011221205649.A899@localhost.bsd.net.il>
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 08:56:49PM +0200, Nimrod Mesika wrote:
> So I typed at the bash prompt (as a normal user, not root):
>
> $kill -9 -1
>
> And my system died.
>
> Can anyone confirm/explain this phenomena? (this is on a fairly
> recent -stable).
From the manpage for kill :
The following pids have special meanings:
-1 If superuser, broadcast the signal to all processes; otherwise
broadcast to all processes belonging to the user.
Ceri
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