Re: Total system lockup with Alt-SysRQ-L

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:34:20 +0000 (GMT)

> When pid1 exits (maybe due to a kill signal), we lockup hard in (iirc)
> exit_notify. I don't remember the details I'm afraid.

pid1 ends up trying to kill pid1 and it goes deeply down the toilet from
that point onwards. The Unix traditional world reboots when pid 1 dies.
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