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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: nfs daemon blocks system.
Message-ID: <1507@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 25 Apr 89 19:42:56 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Well, I was about to suggest that you blast the offending daemon with
>at quit signal and see if you could get a useful "core" file,

Unless DEC has put the NFS server into user mode, you won't get a useful
"core" file; NFS daemons in UNIX systems tend to run in the kernel, and
have no user-mode data or stack segments, and thus you won't get a very
interesting "core" file.