[systemd-devel] Sending a SIGABRT to PID1

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 03.05.15 17:54, Víctor Fernández (vfrico at gmail.com) wrote:

> Ok, Thanks for your reply.
> 
> But, just out of curiosity, why init process gets down with a SIGABRT and
> not with a SIGKILL (9), being this a signal which cannot be caught, blocked
> or ignored?

The kernel refuses to deliver SIGKILL to PID 1. I mean, it's a signal
that cannot be caught by userspace anyway, and hence it would without
exception result in machine halt, and hence the kernel eats it up...

I am pretty sure it's pretty irrelevant whether the kernel delivers it
or not, but they chose not to...

Lennart

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