Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:07:45 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher <mfisher@csh.rit.edu> To: "John C. Place" <jcplace@ibm.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: df hangs on 2.2.6-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811022204470.17410-100000@d111-l052.rh.rit.edu> 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.
I've seen df's or whatever hang when the NFS mount was down. In these
cases, a ps listed that the state had the D flag...
state The state is given by a sequence of letters, for example,
``RWNA''. The first letter indicates the run state of the pro-
cess:
D Marks a process in disk (or other short term, uninter-
ruptible) wait.
So, it couldn't be killed.
--
Mike
"...check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
--Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged_
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