Re: ptrace() and kernel tasks
Zack Weinberg (zack@rabi.columbia.edu)
Wed, 12 May 1999 08:50:34 -0400
On 12 May 1999 10:57:36 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> writes:
>
>|> On Tue, 11 May 1999 20:51:26 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>|> >
>|> >zack@rabi.columbia.edu said:
>|> >> IIRC your problem had to do with sysrq killall - maybe that's
>|> >> different? in particular, sysrq sync is handled by kflushd, if it's
>|> >> dead it won't do anything.
>|> >
>|> >SysRq "killall" doesn't hurt, but SysRq "killall even init" does.
>|> >Also, if I boot with init=/bin/bash and then accidentally close the first
>|> >bash, the system dies. I don't think it's because kflushd is getting kille
>d.
>|>
>|> I just did some experiments. `killall even init' does indeed render
>|> my machine dead to all inputs.
>
>Perhaps it has to do with the fact that `killall even init' clobbers the
>pid of init.
Yes, but why should that affect the keyboard driver...?
zw
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