Hello, I've (accidentally, because of a broken pidfile) noticed yesterday that root can kill [acpi_task1] (PID 8 on my system, FreeBSD 5.4-p5/i386). Killing it resulted in an immediate and total lockup of the system. I gather that processes with [ ] around their name are parts of the kernel. Shouldn't they be protected from kills? Note this was a standard kill, not a kill -9 or anything mean like that. Cheers Benjamin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 186 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050721/917c043b/signature.bin