Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:06:22 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: stevefranks@ieee.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kill -KILL fails to kill process Message-ID: <6AEFF2F5-502F-4C42-A9D2-4A3A1F61EF9F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90809191041p2490130exa024b1f84d44b2f3@mail.gmail.com> References: <539c60b90809191041p2490130exa024b1f84d44b2f3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 19, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Steve Franks wrote: > The only way to get rid of it is to > reboot. Now, given the behavior, I'd have to suspect something > underlying as the true source of the problem, but shouldn't kill kill > it anyway - I mean, isn't there some way to kill a process that's > stuck waiting on a child process? Delivery of signals can be delayed if the process is blocked in a system call, until that call completes and returns control to the process in userland. That includes kill -9, unfortunately... -- -Chuck
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