Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 07:40:23 +0200 From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Cc: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: indestructible processes won't die Message-ID: <199510190540.HAA03574@shadows.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951018195045.207n-100000@flinch.io.org> References: <199510182348.BAA03277@shadows.cs.hut.fi> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951018195045.207n-100000@flinch.io.org>
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Brian Tao writes:
> > 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?
I can't see any reason why there should be a possibility of unkillable
processes in a system, no matter what IO it happens to be doing when it
gets SIGKILL?
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