RE: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

Leif Sawyer (lsawyer@gci.com)
Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:41:05 -0900

Patrick O'Rourke, who wrote:
> Since the system will panic if the init process is chosen by
> the OOM killer, the following patch prevents select_bad_process()
> from picking init.
>

(Patch deleted)

What happens when init is not pid == 1, as is often the case
during installs, booting off of cdrom, etc..

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