Re: Dumb; help! I removed a mounted floppy
'kill -9' (or 'kill -s KILL' for the mnemonic-dependent) does not work.
I have a UNIX book that says in a footnote, "...kill may not always
work...for instance, if the process invoked a device driver that is stuck
waiting for a response from the device. In that case the signal will wait
indefinitely for recognition with no indication of what is happening."
(Abrams, Paul W. and Bruce R. Larson, _UNIX for the Impatient, 2nd ed_, p.
32) This sounds like my situation all right.
One kind soul has so far sent me an alternate suggestion which I will try
after some sleep. It if comes to a reboot (dread!), anything to watch out
for? Thanks. -Eric Worden
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote:
> Eric Worden (worden@eskimo.com) wrote:
>
> > Now the program responds to nothing, not even KILL. To make things more
> > interesting, I got the bright idea to mount the floppy again, so now two
> > processes are in limbo. Is there a graceful way to solve this problem??
>
> First: thou shelt not remove mounted media! (especially while copying
> from it) ;-)
>
> Second: did you try 'kill -9' ?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ron
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