Re: Unkillable process
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:45:46PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote:
>
> netscape is known doing this, 'kill -9 <PID>' should get rid of them,
> signal 9 is not maskable.
But if the process is blocked on an uninterruptable system call, it will
never return to receive the signal. This is a known Unix deadlock that happens
rarely. Disk reads and writes are uninterruptable, I believe. Perhaps this
person is experiencing I/O troubles.
Mike
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