Help- How to delete a corrupted process?
Richard Tobin
richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Thu Oct 4 03:31:32 AEST 1990
In article <4131 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>How do I delete a corrupted process with garbage "H&^5$#^*" after I used the
>>ps -axu command to check on all running processes?
> BUGS
> Things can change while ps is running; the picture it gives
> is only a close approximation to the current state.
There was also a bug in at least one version of the NFS kernel mods
for BSD that caused ps to print junk process names for certain processes
(maybe #! shell scripts? I can't remember for sure now).
-- Richard
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