On 05/15/11 02:09 PM, alan pae wrote: > I would swear that I read somewhere that kill -9 could be ignored
Not on Solaris or most other forms of *nix. I do remember Apollo Domain/OS having the unusual feature of allowing it, but it also had system calls in it's native API to kill processes even with that. > Or maybe I was recalling something like this: > > http://www.readmespot.com/question/f/132353/kill--9-doesn-t-work Right, the signal may be deferred until a system call returns, which can be quite a long time if it's stuck waiting for a NFS server that's not responding. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
