Is it just me or does it all sound like we are getting involved in some mass slaughter of children and parents
:) Tomaas Ortega "Hey, does anybody else hear that giant sucking sound? That's my will to live...." www.dematerialised.com - coming soon www.dematerialised.com/zeitgeist/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 11:54 PM Subject: Re: Unkillable process > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Michael Soulier wrote: > > MS> > netscape is known doing this, 'kill -9 <PID>' should get rid of them, > MS> > signal 9 is not maskable. > MS> > MS> But if the process is blocked on an uninterruptable system call, it will > MS> never return to receive the signal. This is a known Unix deadlock that happens > MS> rarely. Disk reads and writes are uninterruptable, I believe. Perhaps this > MS> person is experiencing I/O troubles. > > Well, if the nutscrape was hung on uninterruptable system call, the whole > machine would be probably deadlocked, if the child doesn't want to die, kill > the parent :), it will take the child down with it. > > Dingo. > > > ).|.( > '.`___'.` > ' `(>~<)' ` > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port 3333 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=- > Oxymoron: Microsoft Works > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >