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From: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com>
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Subject: indestructible processes won't die
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
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PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
26783 p6- IEs 0:00.31 (zsh)
26795 p6- IE+ 0:24.38 pine
UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
1096 26783 26782 0 4 0 576 12 ttywai IEs p6- 0:00.31 (zsh)
1096 26795 26783 4 4 0 23264 48 ttywai IE+ p6- 0:24.38 pine
USER PID PPID PGID SESS JOBC STAT TT TIME COMMAND
pipa 26783 26782 26783 c1efe0 0 IEs p6- 0:00.31 (zsh)
pipa 26795 26783 26795 c1efe0 1 IE+ p6- 0:24.38 pine
These processes running on pseudo tty p6 will not die. A kill
and kill -9 have no affect on them.
Why are they stuck? And how does one unstuck them?
The user was telnet'ed in from another machine.
The system is a -current from a few months ago.
Thanks,
Brian Litzinger
brian@mediacity.com