Re: Delivering SIGKILL to init

On Tue, 2006-Sep-19 17:55:50 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >Prompted by some discussion elsewhere, I've been trying to send >SIGKILL to init. If I ktrace kill(1), I can see "kill(1,9)" which >returns 0 but the signal is never delivered. If I sent (eg) SIGXCPU >then init dies and the kernel panics (a

Delivering SIGKILL to init

Prompted by some discussion elsewhere, I've been trying to send SIGKILL to init. If I ktrace kill(1), I can see "kill(1,9)" which returns 0 but the signal is never delivered. If I sent (eg) SIGXCPU then init dies and the kernel panics (as expected). I've looked through sys/kern/kern_* and can't