Author: Olaf Meeuwissen Date: To: Rick Moen CC: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Linux system can be brought down by sending SIGILL to
Systemd
Hi,
Rick Moen writes:
> Quoting Martin Steigerwald (martin@???):
>
> [...]
>> While sending SIGKILL to Systemd did not have any effect, sending SIGILL
>> – illegal instruction – to it brought the machine to an halt. I
>> reproduced it with
>>
>> while true; do kill -ILL 1 ; echo -n "." ; sleep 0.5 ; done
> [...]
>
> OMG, that's both sad and hilarious.
>
> The jokes about systemd being ILL almost tell themselves.
And the systemd fan-folk will be complaining about ILL will, no doubt.
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