Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ptrace() and kernel tasks | Date | Wed, 12 May 1999 08:50:34 -0400 | From | Zack Weinberg <> |
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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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