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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:52:58 -0400
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) wrote:

> Wayne Marshall <wcm@b0llix.net> wrote:
> > It is like worrying, what if init(8) should die?
> 
> If process 1 dies, the system halts, and we reboot it.  But
> perpd doesn't run as process 1, right?  So if it did receive
> SIGKILL, for whatever reason, it's not so obvious what would
> happen.
>

It is as deterministic as if svscan is SIGKILLed: the system is
unstable.

Wayne