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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:22:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
Cc:        Anish A Patankar <patankar@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: doubt about init process..
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010220132129.14504A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <00e801c098b2$089a3b60$6100000a@vladsempire.net>

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On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Josh Paetzel wrote:

> Killing init does essentially kills the system.  Unlike a traditional
> Unix system, FreeBSD does not allow anyone to kill init, as there are
> more graceful ways to shut the system down.  It's a feature, not a bug. 

Oh, absolutely -- there's an explicit panic if init dies, as there is a
lot of special casing of pid 1.  Probably bad, but it's there
none-the-less.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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