Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Rob Hagopian (hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 02:19:08 -0400 (EDT)

There are bodyguards in the bedroom if 'init' is there... I can watch bash
or killall do a kill(1, SIGKILL) yet nothing happens so can only assume
that someone with a kevlar vest is taking the shot... Shouldn't root be
responsible enough to not kill init (pun intended :-)?
-Rob

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Rob Hagopian wrote:
> >
> > I'll probably regret saying this but: OK, with that reasoning why don't we
> > put "bodyguards" in the kernel to protect the process from the person with
> > the "shotgun?" The kernel does so already by protecting the init process
> > so there's precedent...
>
> We already have bodyguards. That's why normal users don't get to kill the
> president.
>
> If the presidents wife for some reason thinks she has a reason to take a
> shotgun to her president, that's not something bodyguards are there for. I
> think that you'll find that they don't have bodyguards in the presidential
> bedroom.
>
> Linus
>

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