From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 2 18:13:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20333 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:13:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA20311 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zaVxm-0002kI-00; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:12:54 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:12:51 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: "John C. Place" cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: df hangs on 2.2.6-BETA In-Reply-To: <19981102210818.01660@ka3tis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, John C. Place wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 05:23:55PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > This raises a missing feature I've long thought Unix needed. There > > should be a "kill with extreme prejudice". Something that will go > > through the kernel process tables and just remove all evidence the > > process ever existed. > > > You mean kill -9 .... doesn't do the trick?? I always thought that was kill > with extreme prejudice. That is what kill -9 does, except it doesn't work for processes stuck waiting for NFS. This is by design. See what the "intr" flag is for. > Just my 2 cents > > John Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message