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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Killing processes that are sleeping with -ve priority
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 01:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 21 01:08:00 1985
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> Occasionally I will run into a process that is sleeping with
> a negative priority.

Fix your device driver to timeout after a reasonable period.