Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 21:00:38 -0300

In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.980812140323.6780F-100000@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>, "Jon
M.
Taylor" writes:
+-----
| On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Kragen wrote:
| > Remember, we're talking about defending against signals from a hostile
| > root who wants to crash the video card.
| No we are not. Where did hostility come into this? There are
| many legitimate reasons why I might want to kill -9 the X server.
+--->8

Excuse me? You want to use the explicit kill-without-cleanup, then you
complain that it didn't clean up after you and we need to hack the kernel to
make up for it? What's wrong with a normal kill?

If your worry is traceback (which -9 won't help you with either) then edit
XF86Config and turn on core dumps, then kill it with -4 or something. It'll
fork, the child will dump core, then it cleans up.

-- 
brandon s. allbery	[os/2][linux][solaris][japh]	 allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator	     [WAY too many hats]	   allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering
carnegie mellon university			   (bsa@kf8nh is still valid.)






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