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.
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