Re: What to do on ctrl-alt-del?

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@cs.tu-berlin.de)
Tue, 15 Jul 1997 20:32:58 +0200 (MET DST)

>Of _course_ there is a process with PID 1. It's just a simple shell script
>(or whatever) though, not a full-blown init.

My linuxrc has PID 8, not 1. A 'ps -ax' looks like this:

1 ... (swapper)
2 ... (kflushd)
3 ... (kswapd)
4-7 ... (nfsiod)
8 ... /bin/sh note: last line in linuxrc is 'exec /bin/sh'
1x ... ps -ax

So even if you tell the kernel he should send a signal to process 1, you
can't catch this signal...

Gerd