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From: gn@loonam.UUCP (The Unknown one)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Unkillable processes
Message-ID: <119@loonam.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 14:25:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 14:25:56 1985
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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

  As a side light there was the same problem under Xenix 2.5, a 
process would hang and was unable to be killed short of shutdown.

 This (I understand) was a problem with 2.5's IO drivers, when a
process had output going to a none responding device the process 
would hang. This would also happen if a process generated an 
error that printed on the console, and the console was off.

 This was fixed on Xenix 3.0.

Greg Noel
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