Re: When kill fails...
> Uhmmm....
> I might have missed something in all UNIX - related manuals I have seen,
> but...
>
> if
> # kill -9 <some pid>
> fails for a program (that has hung) , what should I do then...
>
> Does there exist any kommand, or call, UNIX specific, HURD specific, or Mach
> specific - that completely and unfrendly removes a program from the
> tasklist, and whipes it out of the virtual memory?
That's what kill -9 should be doing. Unlike other signals, SIGKILL (9) is
a special case and in fact does use the low-level Mach task_terminate call
to nuke the process with extreme prejudice. Can you give us a specific
reproducible case of an unkillable process?
What does "fails" mean? Please show us the full context and the actual
output, rather than your interpretation of what happened.
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