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>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010220132129.14504A-100000>