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From: mrl@drutx.UUCP (LongoMR)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Unkillable processes
Message-ID: <2536@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 11:05:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 11:05:30 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Apr-85 00:34:52 EST
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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I have seen several times in the past years, processes which cannot
be killed on UNIX. I have been told that one of two things can be
happening. One, the process is waiting on a non-existant wait channel, or
two, the process is running with a negative priority level. This seems
to happen at random on random processes. Has anyone else seen this and,
if so, how is the problem handled?
	Mark Longo		AT&T ISL Denver