On 04/14/2012 12:25 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Under what circumstance would killing a waiting process be worse than a process that should have waited, but terminated instead?
I think that the idea is that if the process is in an uninterruptable sleep, it's for a good reason and the kernel is expected to assume that the programmer knew what he was doing and why. Most of the time, that's a good assumption; in fact, almost always. Alas, there's currently no way to override that on the very rare occasions that it's wrong.
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