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Subject: Re: Killing a process?
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Dean Hollister wrote:
> 
> Hiyall,
> 
> I have a process that has the "D" flag on it, according to the man page:
> 
> "D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninterruptable) wait"
> 
> So how can I kill it?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> d.

kill -9 process-id

Should kill it regardless... Unless it's a zombie, in which case you need to
kill the parents ;-)

Regards,

Karl Pielorz

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