On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Andrew Deason <adea...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 00:01:03 +0000 > Derrick Brashear <sha...@dementia.org> wrote: > >> If they kill everything, we could simply have one 'real' child that >> pushes a 'die already' into the kernel. > > The long/infinite wait is per-process, I'm pretty sure.
that's not the issue, if you enter the kernel and tell it to be done presumably the other children (could) return, and exit. >The loop we're > looking at looks similar to > <http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/syscall/uadmin.c#113>, > but is obviously different now (and we don't have the source). But > assuming it still somewhat resembles that loop, if it waits for one > unkillable process, it won't get to the rest of them. that's the issue. -- Derrick _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info