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

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 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.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

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

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 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

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