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Old 11-07-2011
Question Killing the shell Process

I was just playing with the processes and suddenly a question striked my mind:

What will happen if we kill directly the shell process?? Smilie

Do anyone know?

Will the system shutdown?

Or the system wont let it be killed?
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Old 11-07-2011
This might help ..

ProcessManagement - Greg's Wiki
# 3  
Old 11-07-2011
Simple you will be kicked out Smilie.
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Old 11-07-2011
Kicked out means , will the system will shutdown directly???
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Old 11-07-2011
It just logs you out.
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Old 11-07-2011
ok........ thanks a lot
 
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