Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 07:41:28 +0100 From: Mathieu Arnold <arn_mat@club-internet.fr> To: nimrodm@email.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kill -9 -1 Message-ID: <3C242B18.C6E39EC5@club-internet.fr> References: <20011221205649.A899@localhost.bsd.net.il>
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Nimrod Mesika wrote: > > 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): > > $kill -9 -1 > > And my system died. XFree was dead but instead of going back to text > mode (as if it was killed) the system was left in an unstable > condition. I couldn't log-in again (at least not from the console). > The screen went black and nothing worked - I couldn't switch virtual > consoles, etc. > > Ctrl-Alt-Del did not work. I had to push the big red button... > > Can anyone confirm/explain this phenomena? (this is on a fairly > recent -stable). on a CURRENT (I have no stable) : mat@beorn ~$ kill -9 -1 su: kill: (1) - Operation not permitted mat@beorn ~$ it doesn't seem to do what it should either -- Mathieu Arnold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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