Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:51:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: indestructible processes won't die Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951018195045.207n-100000@flinch.io.org> In-Reply-To: <199510182348.BAA03277@shadows.cs.hut.fi>
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On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
>
> Please, no waste of time to implement kludges just to get a workaround
> for an obvious bug. Using that time to fix the bug instead would be
> much more useful. kill -9 should kill the process. If the process is
> trying to output something somewhere, the output is lost or something
> else is done with it, but the process is killed. That is the whole
> meaning of SIGKILL, isn't it, to kill, with no excuses?
And if the process is in disk wait?
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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