wouter@debian.org (Wouter Verhelst) writes: > It shouldn't (and should go into zombie state), but I've seen situations > in which "kill -9" to a hung process simply doesn't work, or where a As I understand it, that means that the process is stuck in I/O wait; if and when the I/O operation finishes, it will immediately die. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)