The shrinking role of ETXTBSY

Posted Aug 20, 2021 0:33 UTC (Fri) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)
In reply to: The shrinking role of ETXTBSY by NYKevin
Parent article: The shrinking role of ETXTBSY

Well, you can instantly kill every userspace process and panic the kernel at the same time on a system with sudo kill -9 -1 1

* Probably. I have not just tried this.

Posted Aug 23, 2021 12:17 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link]

You can't kill -9 1; the init process is protected from signals for which it doesn't have an explicitly installed signal handler.