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Subject: Re: Total system lockup with Alt-SysRQ-L
To: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King)
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:34:20 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> When pid1 exits (maybe due to a kill signal), we lockup hard in (iirc)
> exit_notify.  I don't remember the details I'm afraid.

pid1 ends up trying to kill pid1 and it goes deeply down the toilet from
that point onwards. The Unix traditional world reboots when pid 1 dies.
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