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Date:      Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:18:00 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: df hangs on 2.2.6-BETA
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811032216220.7434-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981103180944.0096b210@mail.scancall.no>

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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Marius Bendiksen wrote:

> 
> I was thinking more along the lines of a generic mechanism for killing
> *any* part of the system which has gotten hung up on something.

AFAIK, the processes which are stuck at kernel priority levels are
unkillable by definition. At least [McKusick et al.] say so.

Andrzej Bialecki

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