Re: Total system lockup with Alt-SysRQ-L

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:00:04 +0000

rmk@arm.linux.org.uk said:
> Ok, can someone explain *why* it is desirable to attempt to kill pid1
> given that doing so will completely lockup the machine? (should we
> rename it to "Lockup" instead of "killalL"? 8)

It's not. I believe SysRq-L was implemented while Linux would still exhibit
sane behaviour upon pid1 dying, and was never removed when the current
brokenness was introduced.

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dwmw2




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