luke p??e v St 01. 11. 2006 v 16:53 -0600: > I reported this problem 3 or 4 weeks ago. Gregory Nowak was able to > confirm that it was happening. In that case, I'm sorry for the duplicity. > While this is untested in regards to modprobe, it would be better to use: > kill -9 $! Yes, you are completely right that the quick hack I sent has possible side effects. Actually, it is pretty broken with the sleeps and all :) However, I think the method you described is not guaranteed to work, because in the time of the crash, modprobe is running a child process and you would risk that this child process ends up being a zombie and block the thing. I didn't test the exact behavior, but I wouldn't rely on it. I agree that in other cases what you propose would be a much cleaner solution. With regards, Hynek Hanke
