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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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