'kill -9' (or 'kill -s KILL' for the mnemonic-dependent) does not work. I have a UNIX book that says in a footnote, "...kill may not always work...for instance, if the process invoked a device driver that is stuck waiting for a response from the device. In that case the signal will wait indefinitely for recognition with no indication of what is happening." (Abrams, Paul W. and Bruce R. Larson, _UNIX for the Impatient, 2nd ed_, p. 32) This sounds like my situation all right.
One kind soul has so far sent me an alternate suggestion which I will try after some sleep. It if comes to a reboot (dread!), anything to watch out for? Thanks. -Eric Worden On Sun, 7 May 2000, Ron Farrer wrote: > Eric Worden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Now the program responds to nothing, not even KILL. To make things more > > interesting, I got the bright idea to mount the floppy again, so now two > > processes are in limbo. Is there a graceful way to solve this problem?? > > First: thou shelt not remove mounted media! (especially while copying > from it) ;-) > > Second: did you try 'kill -9' ? > > > Regards, > > Ron > -- > Email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home: <http://www.farrer.net/~rbf/> > > Alpha Linux Organization: <http://www.alphalinux.org> > Bellingham Linux Users Group: <http://www.blug.org> >
