From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 17:25:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-158.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7321037B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:25:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3DF9566B09; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:25:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:25:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Walter Hop Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: tar just doesn't want to be KILLed Message-ID: <20010304172518.B41178@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <139127338372.20010305022456@binity.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <139127338372.20010305022456@binity.com>; from walter@binity.com on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:24:56AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:24:56AM +0100, Walter Hop wrote: > Hi *, >=20 > am I right in assuming that... >=20 > 1. there's no way to get rid of an instance of tar (that's probably > waiting for some IO to complete? > 2. there's no way to umount a mount point held by such a process? No and no. See the KILL signal, and the -f option to umount. Kris --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6our9Wry0BWjoQKURAgUMAJ9GUFI3rn3nrvRAKe4tXlWu7f54AgCgoSmj g5eTPIItD7E+cEq1wwZXINw= =wFrH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3lcZGd9BuhuYXNfi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message