Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:24:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com> To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, brian@MediaCity.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: indestructible processes won't die (flushout) Message-ID: <199510182024.NAA11496@MediaCity.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951018113737.207N-100000@flinch.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Oct 18, 95 11:43:10 am
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> > > These processes running on pseudo tty p6 will not die. A kill > > > and kill -9 have no affect on them. > > > > - tty is trying to drain but prevented from doing so > > I had the exact same problem on one of our BSD/OS 2.0 machines > last week. I got a reply back from Matt Bush (xomox@boris.eden.com) > saying to use "stty -f <path-to-dev-entry> flushout" to drain the > output queue. That solved the problem immediately. > > We don't seem to have "flushout" with the 2.0.5 stty though. :( > From the BSD/OS stty(1) man page: Yes, yes, yes! We need that function. I originally came across that flushout problem years ago, but had never seen it in FreeBSD, so I thought it didn't exist there. Brian Litzinger brian@Mediacity.com
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