Per Hedeland posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:52:51 +0200:
> No, killing a user process, with -9 or otherwise, cannot cause file system > corruption on any Unix/Linux file system - it is the kernel's job to > ensure file system integrity, and so the only risk of corruption is when > the kernel crashes (or has a bug, or power is lost, etc). > > It may well cause corruption to file *contents* though, which won't be > handled by even a journalled file system, nor noticed or fixed by fsck and > friends. Correction noted. Thanks /very/ much! I appreciate having incorrect understandings/assumptions brought to my attention, so I can note the correction. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
