From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 15:31:24 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 15:31:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE5037B402 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:31:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 143o1r-000Eyo-00; Wed, 06 Dec 2000 23:31:17 +0000 Received: (from cliff@localhost) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eB6NUrB05895; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:30:53 +0100 Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:30:53 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Ryan Younce Cc: Joe Oliveiro , Corey Brune , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Process wont be killed. Message-ID: <20001207003053.A5779@buffy.local> References: <20001206160200.A19885@cheshire.manunkind.org> <20001206173151.A20117@cheshire.manunkind.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001206173151.A20117@cheshire.manunkind.org>; from ryan@manunkind.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:31:51PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am glad to see something's never change. All unix type systems seem to have had this problem since the dawn of time. A process can get into a certain state, waiting on some event that never happens and the kernel never wakes it up from this state. It only goes away after a reboot. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message