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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: kill -9
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.113410.6346@virtech.uucp>
Date: 17 Oct 90 11:34:10 GMT
References: <24788@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <24788@adm.BRL.MIL> frech@mwraaa.army.mil (Norman R. Frech CPLS) writes:
>Is there a stronger kill than kill -9?  I had a process which attached
>itself to my tape drive and then locked up.  I couldn't kill it no
>matter what I tried.  This caused me great concern, backups are very

There is no signal "stronger" than a 9.  The problem that caused the process
to be un-killable is due to a bug in the device driver for the tape drive.
Complain to the manufacturer of the driver.

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