> Under what circumstance would killing a waiting process > be worse than a process that should have waited, > but terminated instead? When it leaves the system in an unstable state or where corruption could follow. Far better then to leave that process stuck unless things sort out. In the case of NFS btw read the mount page for the "soft" and "intr" options and also read about umount -f. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org