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From: ralfi@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de (Ralf U. Holighaus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: "Unkillable" processes
Message-ID: <1157@pemcom.pem-stuttgart.de>
Date: 22 Apr 91 12:45:30 GMT
References: <1991Apr20.145633.5639@odbffm.incom.de>
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oli@odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer) writes:

>   root  14363     1  0 12:16:02  01       0:34 tar cvfbk /dev/rct 20 60000 . 
>A kill -9 xxx only has the effect, that the PPID changes to init, and after
>this any kill -9 is ignored.

Processes that hang while trying to access any device hang in the kernel and
therefore cannot be killed. In this case, not the tar command is hanging, but
the device /dev/rct makes problems.

Ansonsten gerne EMail an mich

Ralf.
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