From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 2 19:08:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA27207 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:08:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parsons.rh.rit.edu (d111-l052.rh.rit.edu [129.21.111.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA27201 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 19:08:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mfisher@csh.rit.edu) Received: from mfisher (helo=localhost) by parsons.rh.rit.edu with local-esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zaWos-0004li-00; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:07:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 22:07:45 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Fisher X-Sender: mfisher@d111-l052.rh.rit.edu To: "John C. Place" cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: df hangs on 2.2.6-BETA In-Reply-To: <19981102210818.01660@ka3tis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message