Re: Hardware cursor

[Andreas Beck]

> > > > Ever see a process that survives kill -9?
> > > The init-process survives it always.
> > No. It doesn't. It just gets respawned by the kernel.

> That's not true for 2.2 or 2.3 kernels at least:
> 0 #) ps axl|grep init
>    100     0     1     0   0   0    244    52 pci_conf1_w S   ?   0:04 init [5]
> 0 #) kill -9 1                                                    ^^^^
> 0 #) ps axl|grep init
>    100     0     1     0   0   0    244    52 pci_conf1_w S   ?   0:04 init [5]

That is interesting ... So the kernel protects PID 1 from a kill -9 ?
Weird. Wouldn't have thought that. Looks kind of inkonsistent to me ...

CU, ANdy

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