Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 14:08:31 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Kragen wrote:
> >
> > Remember, we're talking about defending against signals from a hostile
> > root who wants to crash the video card.
>
> No we are not. Where did hostility come into this? There are
> many legitimate reasons why I might want to kill -9 the X server.

No there aren't. And get me off the Cc list.

Linus

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