> What will kill it? I feel like you are adding features to the kernel > that can be done in userspace, which is generally not a good idea. The mere act of writing "e" to /proc/sysrq-trigger kills everything except for init, which is rather unfortunate when doing that through remote access, like ssh (or other). I can surely block SIGTERM in userspace by fixing all remote access software that exists to not exit after SIGTERM, but if i want to do SIGKILL and then execute few more sysrq actions (sync, unmount, reboot, ...) it surely is a problem unless i am doing this from init process. which sometimes is just not possible on remote system that have undergone some crash. and as linux admin with 13 years of experience i can safely say that situations with unresponsive init do happen every now and then. that is when i usually have to resort to rebooting the system remotely via sysrq-trigger. this process failing can be difference between me being able to fix issue remotely with minimum downtime and me having to physicaly visit datacenter during holidays. BTW if still unclear, here is simple example of how running that suggested code will not work: $ ssh root@10.10.10.10 root@10.10.10.10's password: Last login: Wed Oct 4 12:34:03 2023 root@debian-arm64:~# root@debian-arm64:~# echo e > /proc/sysrq-trigger Connection to 10.10.10.10 closed by remote host. Connection to 10.10.10.10 closed.
