Hi, On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:51:32AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:35:20PM +0000, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > > > After this, the program hangs and doesn't respond to any signals other > > than SIGKILL. My guess is that signal handling has been disabled and > > it hangs while waiting for the abort signal to be handled. > > > > Also ps stops working after this and hangs without outputting > > anything. So the proc server might also be affected. > > That last part is expected: ps queries the processes for certain > information; if the signal thread of a process doesn't work, this query > hangs. > > Use ps -M to avoid the query.
Ok, thanks for the info. This makes the test a little less dangerous, in that you can find out the PID of the test and kill it from another terminal if you forget to background it. Regards, Fredrik
