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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:50:12 +0100
From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Count one for the complaints, but I want more to overrule a published
> standard.
> 
> (Of course, a language lawyer will call "self" a "system process",
> although I cannot for the life of me really see what kind of excuse we
> would come up with to do se ;)

Root doing a kill -1 -9 is definitely doing system administration,
hence it is a "system process." I never do this as a user,
but think about what happens at shutdown time.  At least a
root process ought to survive this.

Helge Hafting
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