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Wait, these are all separate processes? What happens if you crash / ?

• robotresearcher 13y ago
  The service restarts. What happens if you crash the Linux kernel? I'm a happy monolithic kernel user, but there are some great ideas in the microkernel model. Just seems to never quite be the best practical choice except in some niches.
  • Florin_Andrei 13y ago
    I was not criticizing, I was genuinely curious. Okay then, I donwloaded Debian Hurd and made a VirtualBox image out of it. This should be fun.
• lelf 13y ago
  Yep, user space. It will be restarted. (Note that I may lie to you about /, it's somewhat special and I don't remember details). Edit: oh, and when it crashes it will get handled by crash server (you guessed it, user-space program) which can kill/suspend/coredump it. You can choose even by env variable!
  • chrisdevereux 13y ago
    What happens if you crash the crash server?
    • stormbrew 13y ago
      Dingos eat your baby.