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From: Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: how to confuse truss: truss -f fsck -p /
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On Mon, 09 Feb 2004, Tim Robbins wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 04:17:40AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 
> > After typing "truss -f fsck -p /", I see nothing. I press ^Z
> > and type kill -9 % (killing truss).
> > 
> > I now have these fine processes hanging dead in memory, they are immune
> > to kill -9 and don't respond to kill -CONT either, ps axl:
...
> > Is there a way to get rid of these without reboot?
> 
> Try procctl(8).

Worked for me, thanks!

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