Modifying a unix process table on the fly

[Dan Dick "Squid Mugger"]

We have a process that is hung waiting for a device driver that will never
respond.  Therefore, that process cannot die--even with a kill -9 <PID>.
Does anybody have experience flipping the DISK-WAIT flag so the process can
think it is ok to die gracefully?

We are running Dynix 3.0 on a 10 processor Sequent Symmetry, but over-all, it
seems somewhat Berkeley-like in nature with some System V'ish characteristics
as well.  The adb program is not available, but dbx is.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give...If you wish to respond by mail,
my email address is dan at ingres.com or dan at ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov or
c2036 at sn1033.cray.com--whichever is easiest.


	  Dan Dick