From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 3 13:12:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10818 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:12:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10807 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:12:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA11225; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:18:00 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:18:00 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Marius Bendiksen cc: Alfred Perlstein , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: df hangs on 2.2.6-BETA In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981103180944.0096b210@mail.scancall.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message