-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 July 2003 08:33, John Haxby wrote: > Neil Bird wrote: > > But I can 'kill -9' any stopped process that I actually stop myself > > (with 'kill -STOP' or <Ctrl-Z>) without 'kil -CONT', so why was this > > one different? > > Because it's traced its asleep in the kernel. kill -9 wakes the > process up and then bangs it over the head, but if it's stuck in > ptrace() is can't without the debuggers say or or having been explicitly > continued. I think. It's too hot. > I ran into this problem once. Just run "strace" and attach it to the process. If you have already sent "kill -9" to it, the process will die the instant strace starts to trace it. - -- Jonathan Gardner <jgardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (was jgardn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Live Free, Use Linux! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/DtcrWgwF3QvpWNwRAtIVAJwK7Qw88Bw+LUpxttC1QBWhCQr0RgCZAWdy NA5/pN4OGBwytn6UbAIszOE= =hREO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
