Re: Bug in 2.2.3

Chris Chiappa (griffon@snurgle.org)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 02:09:44 -0500


On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 10:20:33PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> > Tonight, I found that doing a kill -9 -1 as a normal user kills root
> > processes in 2.2.3ac1.
> I take that back. kill -9 -1 seems to kill all processes associated with
> the user that runs it. If I run it from a telnet session, it seems I get
Not a kernel issue. You might find 'man kill' instructive:

--snip--
...
cess with pid n will be signaled. -1 in which case all processes from
MAX_INT to 2 will be signaled, as allowed by the issuing user. -n where n
is...
--snip--

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