From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 2 07:56:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10080 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:56:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10069 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA24945; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:56:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:56:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199810021456.KAA24945@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brian Tao Cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT Subject: Processes stuck waiting for tty drain? In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Killing off pax and tcsh left just the login csh, which was > unkillable: > UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND > 1000 338 337 0 4 0 452 288 ttywai SEs+ p1- 0:00.00 (csh) It was already dead: E The process is trying to exit. Since it was running on a pty, probably something had gone wrong with the process on the master side, and so the buffer wasn't getting drained. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message