Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!mvadh
From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 3b2 Unkillable Processes
Message-ID: <1990Jun15.104651.7994@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 15 Jun 90 10:46:51 GMT
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In article <23658@adm.BRL.MIL> rbottin@atl.calstate.edu (Richard John Botting) writes:
"Brendan Kehoe (bkehoe@widener.bitnet)
"writes about a 'cu' process that can't even be killed by 'root'.
[]
"I'd love to hear of REAL solution (that means $0 and 1 hour of guru time).

i've seen this on a 3b2/600 with eports cards; i'm told there's a bug
in the tty driver...

my solution was to 'pump' the eports card (reload its resident
software); then processes associated with those ttys can (in fact,
must) be killed.  3b2 ports cards can't be 'pumped', though.  you're
on your own with other machines.

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