On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 08:31, martin f krafft wrote: > hi all, > given a PID of a process that hasn't been started from a terminal, is > there anyway i can suspend it? i am root, and init started process x, > is there a way that i can suspend x at any point during normal > operation, and also to unfreeze it again?
I think a kill -STOP PID and a kill -CONT PID will allow you to do what you want. STOP is a nonblockable signal according to the kill man page so this should work regardless of the antisuspend intelligence of a process. --mike
