On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org> wrote: > Additionally, this approach only requires that kill(-1, something) > doesn't hit process 1 It does. It's just that sending any signal to pid 1 won't kill it: all SIG_DFL'ed signals on pid 1 are ignored. Even SIGKILL.