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

  • N3Cr0
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    63 months ago

    rm -rf <some placeholder>

    Works for . current directory. Yay!

    … also works for / system root. 🔥 Nay!

      • N3Cr0
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        13 months ago

        It should, but I the end it depends on your system. Each distro has their own default behavior.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      That won’t crash your kernel, and I was more curious about the OPs example. Task management is basically reading some files, and sending signals, it should be near impossible to crash the system.

      • Norah - She/They
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        23 months ago

        I believe it does crash the system eventually as important buts start to go missing?

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          Kernel shouldn’t crash, and anything running in memory will be okayish, but it definitely will get less and less stable. It won’t be possible to start new processes.

          I have a Linux install on a USB SSD with a flakey connection, if I bumped the cord the root would unmount. It was fairly resilient, but graphics would slowly start disappearing. I’m fairly sure I could cleanly reboot as long as I had a terminal open, but its been a while, so maybe I’m misremembering.

          Still, the overall system becomes pretty useless, so i guess its fair to call it a crash