From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 02:13:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA12156 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 02:13:53 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA11927 ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 02:09:24 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA02418; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:08:44 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA23738; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:08:33 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA17475; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:53:51 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504140853.KAA17475@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Proceses that won't die - follow up To: nc@ain.charm.net (Network Coordinator) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:53:50 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Network Coordinator" at Apr 13, 95 08:16:59 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 401 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Network Coordinator wrote: > > > For some reason at the same time the system decides to not kill any > processes (except shells) the system won't allow an ls -l of the / > directory. On which event do those unkillable processes wait? (Try ps -alx) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)