I am sorry for being completely off-topic, but Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > SIGKILL won't work on a stopped task. Neither on a traced task.
Why do you think so? It works in both cases (ptracer can use PT_TRACE_EXIT, but the task is killed anyway). > Neither on a zombie (how many newbies are thoroughly confused about > that ;) This is true. Unless this zombie is a group leader, and we have other threads. Oleg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/