Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!tim From: tim@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Timothy Jones) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: for(;;) fork(); Message-ID: <1346@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 28 Mar 89 15:14:54 GMT References: <2464@netmbx.UUCP> Reply-To: tim@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Timothy Jones) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 14 Doing a "kill -STOP" for each running process will freeze the programs (not allow them to regenerate). Then, when they are all frozen, you can "kill -9" them successfully. ****************************************************************************** Timothy Jones Columbia University Center for Computing Activities Instructional Computing Consulting Group BITNET: tim@cunixc, timus@cuvmb ARPANET: tim@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu USENET: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixc.cc.columbia.edu!tim ******************************************************************************