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From: Proniewski Patrick <patrick.proniewski@univ-lyon2.fr>
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Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Subject: Re: truss and procfs strange problem.
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On 26 janv. 06, at 23:33, Dan Nelson wrote:

>> in that case, the command issued as a truss argument (ls, ...) is
>> stuck in state "D". `man ps` says it "Marks a process in disk (or
>> other short term, uninterruptible) wait."
>> these process wont be killed, I'll have to reboot. (procctl won't
>> clear the processes...)
>
> You can continue tracing these processes if you run "truss -p <pid>",
> since that's pretty much what they're waiting for :)

you are right, thanks.

Apart from that, I've recompiled my system from 5.4p8 to 5.4p10, and =20
the problem is still here...



Patrick PRONIEWSKI
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