From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 26 16:40:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07695 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07689; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:40:02 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:40:02 -0800 (PST) Resent-Message-Id: <199701270040.QAA07689@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: gnats (GNATS Management) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.FreeBSD.org, tihor@bsd.org Received: from polya.blah.org (slmel6p29.ozemail.com.au [203.108.201.189]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA07055 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:31:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by polya.blah.org (8.8.4/8.7.3) id LAA10709; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:31:53 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199701270031.LAA10709@polya.blah.org> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:31:53 +1100 (EST) From: tihor@bsd.org Reply-To: tihor@bsd.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: misc/2596: dd refuses to respond to SIGkill Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Number: 2596 >Category: misc >Synopsis: dd refuses to respond to SIGkill >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 26 16:40:01 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Tihor Lim >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A i386 >Environment: >Description: Occasionally using dd to write an image to a floppy dies (floppy light doesnt come on, kill -9 fails to kill it). This occurred when comparing write times for various bs arguments to dd. >How-To-Repeat: time dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 bs=4096 this will occasionally die without warning. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: