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From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Failed kill -9
Message-ID: <25893F64.22E7@marob.masa.com>
Date: 15 Dec 89 19:00:51 GMT
References: <[628]unix@oldcolo.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC,  New York City
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In article <[628]unix@oldcolo.UUCP> dave@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:
>How else, short of a reboot, can I kill a process on a port that
>kill -9 won't kill?

If the process is sleeping waiting for i/o (the `ps -l' PRI value will
be 20 or less), you can not kill it.  The only answer is to reboot.

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Dave Hammond
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