On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:12 +0530, M. Mohan Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I observed that when we issue the command blktrace -d /dev/sda -k, which > stops on going trace. But the process which initiated tracing still runs. Is > it the expected behavior? Should not the process also be killed when blktrace > -k option is used? > > Regards, > M. Mohan Kumar. No, the -k option just cleans up the kernel state (typically from a previously aborted blktrace run that failed to clean up the state). It doesn't do anything with user-level processes running blktrace. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrace" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html