From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 18:34:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 18:34:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cheshire.manunkind.org (cheshire.manunkind.org [216.254.114.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A094737B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:34:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ryan@localhost) by cheshire.manunkind.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB72ePn21533; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 21:40:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ryan) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 21:40:25 -0500 From: Ryan Younce To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Ryan Younce , Joe Oliveiro , Corey Brune , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Process wont be killed. Message-ID: <20001206214025.B19885@cheshire.manunkind.org> References: <20001206160200.A19885@cheshire.manunkind.org> <20001206173151.A20117@cheshire.manunkind.org> <20001207003053.A5779@buffy.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001207003053.A5779@buffy.local>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 12:30:53AM +0100 Sender: ryan@cheshire.manunkind.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Cliff Sarginson : > 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. Yes, but under FreeBSD you can specify that system calls are to be interruptible by passing the -i option to mount_nfs(8). -- Ryan Younce, Cat Herder / ryan@manunkind.org / http://www.manunkind.org/~ryan "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." --Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (Viking Penguin 95) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message