> It happens because the real parent is gone. That means that init
> becomes the parent.
But you should not be able to kill process 1 except as root. I haven't tried
the code, but if a normal user can bring you to single user mode, that's a
serious security flaw.
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Paul A. Scott
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> when compiled and ran, makes my 4.7-release box quit EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM
> (including boot-time daemons), and go into a fix-it shell.
You mean a single-user shell.
> My question is this: why does this happen? I can't seem to figure it
The following source code:
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
extern int errno;
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN);
signal(SIGTERM, SIG_IGN);
if (!fork())
{
while(1) {
kill(getppid(), SI
