Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:56:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brian Tao <taob@risc.org> Cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Processes stuck waiting for tty drain? Message-ID: <199810021456.KAA24945@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981002005131.23916A-100000@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981002005131.23916A-100000@tor-dev1.nbc.netcom.ca>
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<<On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 01:02:46 -0400 (EDT), Brian Tao <taob@risc.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
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