On 9/29/05, Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > the thing is you can't kill kernel process/thread until you have signal_pending condition check and return from the thread/process on occurence of that condition ......... so if you send signal to thread (might be from user space using kill -9 ) then signal_pending will evaluate to true and your thread will be terminated due to return statement ............ By the way posting code in detail will get you help more correctly ..... -- Fawad Lateef -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
