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Bug 3780

Summary: Command kill -9 -1 hang all the system
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: gmourani
Component: XFree86Assignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description gmourani 1999-07-08 00:49:19 UTC 
When typing kill -9 -1 on the command line under X interface
, all RH Linux system will hang.

------- Additional Comments From notting  06/29/99 12:45 -------
If you do this as root, it probably will. Don't do that.
If you do it as a user, it in theory should work, but remember:
sending kill -9 to programs that
a) grab mouse & keyboard input (xscreensaver & the like)
b) talk to the hardware at a low level (the X server)
can generally be a bad idea...