Re: 2.2.3.ac1 anr root processes

Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:11:56 +0200

LJ> Have heard, that some people here were able to kill
LJ> root processes, when using 2.2.3. ac1 with redhat 5.2
LJ> on some ix86 uniprocessor machines. I do not know, weather
LJ> this bug affects also 2.2.3. Somebody should just test it..

2.2.3ac1: kill -15 -1 killed all but portmapd, klogd and system processes
like init, kswapd, kpiod, rpciod etc).

2.2.3: kill -15 -1 and kill -9 -1 didn't kill anything it wasn't
supposed to, only the processes of current user. So 2.2.3 seems to
be OK at the first glance.

-- 
Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)


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