Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 20:14:05 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: andrew@ugh.net.au, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My child dosn't exit :-( Message-ID: <199703130914.UAA04699@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > 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.'' :-) Always happens if the output can't be flushed for some reason (such as hung flow control). comcontrol can be used to set a timeout for the flush. Bruce
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