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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 1997 22:21:53 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        andrew@ugh.net.au (Andrew)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: My child dosn't exit :-(
Message-ID:  <19970312222153.DI22482@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.970312201333.1482C-100000@cottontail.hobart.tased.edu.au>; from Andrew on Mar 12, 1997 20:23:58 %2B1100
References:  <19970312083556.GK30014@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.NEB.3.93.970312201333.1482C-100000@cottontail.hobart.tased.edu.au>

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As Andrew wrote:

> > Look at the WCHAN message in a ps -alx
> 
> WCHAN  STAT COMMAND
> ttywai SEs  (passwd)

That means it hangs in an attempt to flush the output on the tty,
during exit from the process.

``Can't happen.'' :-)

Bruce?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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