2001-12-10 09:51:57

by Denis Vlasenko

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Subject: Strange SAK event

Hi,

A few minutes ago I experienced strange thing: I tried to kill hung Midnight
Commander with SAK with no success. Top showed that near 100% CPU was sucked
by mc. Plain old kill <pid> form another vc killed it, and login prompt
appeared.

Isn't SAK supposed to be able to kill anything on a vc?
--
vda


2001-12-10 10:06:17

by Robert Love

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Subject: Re: Strange SAK event

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 08:50, vda wrote:

> A few minutes ago I experienced strange thing: I tried to kill hung Midnight
> Commander with SAK with no success. Top showed that near 100% CPU was sucked
> by mc. Plain old kill <pid> form another vc killed it, and login prompt
> appeared.
>
> Isn't SAK supposed to be able to kill anything on a vc?

SAK actually kills everything that has /dev/console open, IIRC.

Robert Love