From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 18:06:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038B3106564A for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:06:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout013.mac.com (asmtpout013.mac.com [17.148.16.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70268FC17 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:06:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp013.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7G005TUFMM8Q50@asmtp013.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <6AEFF2F5-502F-4C42-A9D2-4A3A1F61EF9F@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: stevefranks@ieee.org In-reply-to: <539c60b90809191041p2490130exa024b1f84d44b2f3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:06:22 -0700 References: <539c60b90809191041p2490130exa024b1f84d44b2f3@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: kill -KILL fails to kill process X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:06:24 -0000 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