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Subject: Re: Strange SAK event
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
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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

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