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In some sense, yes, this is kind of like the kernel sending SIGKILL to a process.


Which some kernels do, actually. Not Linux but the ones that think you’re messing with things you shouldn’t be will SIGKILL you at the earliest opportunity.


Linux will sometimes, e.g., if a process violates seccomp.


Ah yes good point




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