Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Jon Hamilton (hamilton@pobox.com)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:56:42 -0500

In message <Pine.LNX.3.96.980812092024.865A-100000@einstein.london.sco.com>, Ti
gran Aivazian wrote:
} On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
} > It' s not a kernel issue. If the X server run in iopl() and own the video
} > card, _it_ must care that everything will return OK when it' s killed.
} When one is killed one cannot care even if one had such intentions while
} being alive.

Oh come on. If it's killed with anything other than signal 9, it can
clean up before exiting.

} > It' s possible using a X wrapper that run as root (not as user) and wait
} > for the child to die (once the X child is died the wrapper can restore the
} > text console fine).
} Well, what if you kill -9 the wrapper too?

If you kill -9 the wrapper, you get what you deserve. What if you pour
water over the motherboard while the machine is running? Should the kernel
attempt to guard against that as well?

-- 
   Jon Hamilton  
   hamilton@pobox.com




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