Re: Sleeping Process

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On 9/28/05, Knowledge Seeker <talibalm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Code in my module in running on the behave of a process and I have called
> scedule_timeout, code freg
>
> sleep_time = 5000;
>
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> schedule_timeout(sleep_time);
>
> I can do ps and it show
>
> 4016 pts/0    S+     0:00 ./cda_select_null
>
> But, when I do kill
>
> kill -9 4016
>
> Process doe not get killed.
>
> What do I need to do to kill the process ?

If you really want interrupts to end the kernel-side of the process, then add

if (signal_pending(current))
   return -EINTR;

after schedule_timeout() returns.

To really help, by the way, we need to see all the code involved.

Thanks,
Nish

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