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From: root@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Unkillable processes
Message-ID: <683@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-May-85 16:10:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.683
Posted: Sun May  5 16:10:44 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 6-May-85 02:06:48 EDT
References: <2536@drutx.UUCP> <119@loonam.UUCP>
Reply-To: root@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess)
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In article <119@loonam.UUCP> gn@loonam.UUCP (The Unknown one) writes:
>> I have seen several times in the past years, processes which cannot
>> be killed on UNIX. 
>
>  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 was fixed on Xenix 3.0.

	Noop, it wasn't..  I run a pair of Altos 586's networked together with
3.0b.  The problem still exists when an i/o device bombs, the process never
terminates and kill -9 pid don't work.

	BTW, I just received the Altos Booster Pak (4.2bsd fast file system) and
it's got a major problem.  The umount command causes a panic crash.  Also, with
25000 blocks(512 bytes) free on 3.0b, the Booster comes up with about 7 megs
free.  Icky...

-- 
.. that's the biz, sweetheart ..
Randy Suess
Chi-Net - Public Access UN*X 
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