From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 3 13:04:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09738 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ohio.river.org (river.org [209.24.233.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09732 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:04:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhawk@ohio.river.org) Received: (from dhawk@localhost) by ohio.river.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id NAA08836 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:04:01 -0800 (PST) From: David Hawkins Message-Id: <199811032104.NAA08836@ohio.river.org> Subject: Re: df hangs on 2.2.6-BETA In-Reply-To: from Matt Behrens at "Nov 3, 1998 2: 4:38 pm" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:04:01 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. In SunOS 4.1.x I could use gcore PROCESS_ID and get that effect. Don't know if it was intended, but gcore would wipe out processes that kill couldn't touch. later, david -- David Hawkins -- dhawk@river.org http://www.river.org/~dhawk "Why.... that would be pretty cool, if they weren't trying to kill me." -- Calvin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message