This happend to me right noww as I tried to write a gui task manager for the GNU/Linux OS

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Try it out on your own system.

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It’s totally possible

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Doesn’t explain OPs task management example. And won’t crash the kernel, just make things unresponsive

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it didn’t crash the kernel, it just killed every process that isn’t run by the root user, which kind of feels like a crash

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Ah, that definitely would feel like a crash. Sent kill signal to cgroup accidentally? Or just iterate over all processes and signal them all?

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