From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 13:26:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0C816A421 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:26:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9DC243D55 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:26:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C9A261 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:26:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (midgard [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72136-02 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:26:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.0.23] (mini.intranet [10.0.0.23]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3853C47 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:26:25 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42DFA261.6080401@datacomm.ch> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:25:53 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4087B68018ECAA99464A6890" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at maxlor.mine.nu Cc: Subject: why is [acpi_task1] killable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:26:47 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4087B68018ECAA99464A6890 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I've (accidentally, because of a broken pidfile) noticed yesterday that root can kill [acpi_task1] (PID 8 on my system, FreeBSD 5.4-p5/i386). Killing it resulted in an immediate and total lockup of the system. I gather that processes with [ ] around their name are parts of the kernel. Shouldn't they be protected from kills? Note this was a standard kill, not a kill -9 or anything mean like that. Cheers Benjamin --------------enig4087B68018ECAA99464A6890 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC36JrgShs4qbRdeQRAsmtAJ4356W9ENZPqGd/Pjd39nR8pbCiWACeOhMT f0/pQkM/WWOqI926KB8N8Zg= =0AnT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4087B68018ECAA99464A6890--