Re: killed process still on-screen
On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:52 am, dman wrote:
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>
> Those processes are blocked on IO or something. Thus it is the
> _kernel_ itself that is stuck, which is why SIGKILL has no effect.
> When a process is executing in its own space, the kernel can kill it
> and clean up the pieces. When the process is executing inside the
> kernel (in a system call) then the kernel can't blow it away because
> it would then need to somehow put itself back together.
>
> -D
i'm totally just guessing here, as i don't use gpg, but wouldn't it be
invoked as a child process to whatever mail app is running, and, if that
assumption is true, wouldn't the parent process keep it alive?
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