Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Count one for the complaints, but I want more to overrule a published
> standard.
>
> (Of course, a language lawyer will call "self" a "system process",
> although I cannot for the life of me really see what kind of excuse we
> would come up with to do se ;)
Root doing a kill -1 -9 is definitely doing system administration,
hence it is a "system process." I never do this as a user,
but think about what happens at shutdown time. At least a
root process ought to survive this.
Helge Hafting
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