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From: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com>
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Subject: Re: indestructible processes won't die (flushout)
To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:24:53 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, brian@MediaCity.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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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