processes with eternal life ?

[Stefan Farestam]

   I have a process which refuses to be killed. It is a piece of
   graphics code running on a 4D25TG under IRIX 3.3.1. The window
   comes up and then dies. Afterwards it is impossible to kill
   the process (both as a normal user and the super-user). If I
   reboot the machine, then these processes disappears, but that
   is a somewhat awkward manoeuvre just to get rid of a process !

      Any suggestions or insights ?

   Thanks,
          Stefan Farestam



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