Re: unkillable find process
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- Subject: Re: unkillable find process
- From: Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:30:00 +1100
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Further:
$ ps aux | egrep find
justa 8558 0.0 0.0 9080 836 pts/9 D+ 11:20 0:00 find
. -maxdepth 4
That shows its STAT(E) as "D+", man ps:
D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-C just output the characters ^Z and ^C respectively,
to my screen session.
The first thing I tried to do to stop this process was Ctrl-C, and was
surprised it output ^C characters to the console rather than stop the
process.
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