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From: sleepy@wybbs.mi.org (Mike Faber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Writing a program that cannot be killed except by reboot
Message-ID: <393@wybbs.mi.org>
Date: 16 Apr 91 23:14:01 GMT
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Reply-To: sleepy@wybbs.UUCP (Mike Faber)
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In article <444@wrdis01.af.mil> mcgough@wrdis01.af.mil (Jeffrey B. McGough) writes:
>Is there anyway to block ALL signals to a program so that it
>may not be killed by kill???
>I know the manual says that sig 9 may not be caught or blocked
>but I was wondering if there might be a funny (strange, interesting)
>hack to get around this...

How about # rm /bin/kill  :-)

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Michael Faber