From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 18 18:55:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA22003 for current-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 18:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from nervosa.com (root@nervosa.com [192.187.228.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA21998 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 18:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from nervosa.com (coredump@onyx.nervosa.com [10.0.0.1]) by nervosa.com (8.7.3/nervosa.com.2) with SMTP id SAA02839 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 18:55:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 18:55:13 -0800 (PST) From: invalid opcode To: FreeBSD-current Subject: hrmmm Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems as if you start a program from X by an xterm, as in: exec xterm -T pine -e pine & and than try to ctrl-z (suspend) it, it of course won't suspend because there is no shell to suspend too, but it also won't automatically continue, you can destroy the window, but the process remains running, I have tried everything (I think) to try to kill these hung processes: top output: 694 coredump 4 0 752K 548K ttywai 0:26 0.00% 0.00% irc-2.8.2 including kill -{every number from 1 to 30}, and it still wont die. Any suggestions, or is this a bug? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Layne coredump@nervosa.com. IRC: hexonyx http://www.nervosa.com./~coredump