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Date:      Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:12:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "John C. Place" <jcplace@ibm.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: df hangs on 2.2.6-BETA
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811021811420.6356-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <19981102210818.01660@ka3tis.com>

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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, John C. Place wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 05:23:55PM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> > This raises a missing feature I've long thought Unix needed.  There
> > should be a "kill with extreme prejudice".  Something that will go
> > through the kernel process tables and just remove all evidence the
> > process ever existed.
> > 
> You mean kill -9 .... doesn't do the trick?? I always thought that was kill 
> with extreme prejudice.

  That is what kill -9 does, except it doesn't work for processes stuck
waiting for NFS.  This is by design.  See what the "intr" flag is for.

> Just my 2 cents
> 
> John

Tom


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