Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Rob Hagopian (hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:56:09 -0400 (EDT)

'kill -9 1' is a special case from legacy code that prevents even root
from killing the init process. It's currently blocked in the kernel. I for
one couldn't live without 'kill -9', programs hang quite often that trap
SIGHUP and friends. I can't see much of a reason to 'kill -9 1', but that
doesn't mean the kernel should stop me...
-Rob

On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 03:12:20PM -0400, Rob Hagopian wrote:
>
> > I missed that message along the line... For pure cleanliness, I
> > think that 'kill -9 1' should be blocked in userspace tools. It
> > does make much more sense there.
>
> Eh?
>
> Being able to `kill -9' is ESSENTIAL sometimes. use older versions of
> Netscape under X and you'll see what I mean....
>
>
>
> -cw
>

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