Trouble killing processes in SysV/AT

[Sue Peru Sr.]

+---- Wolf Paul writes in <3951 at killer.UUCP> 
| Can anyone enlighten me as to what causes a process to become "immortal"
| in System VR2,  or Microport UNIX System V/AT, to be more specific?
+----

Microport users out there with the BETA everex tape driver try this:

	find . -print | cpio -ocv | strm -o /dev/rmt0

	with a WRITE PROTECTED tape!

	after the cpio starts spitting out the filenames, strm will
	hang (because of the R/O tape).  You can kill the find, the cpio,
	but not the strm!  Not only can't you kill it, you can't even
	start up another one cuz it has not released  /dev/rmt0.

	I'd like some more info on this before I bother Microport with it -
	is it just me?... :-)

While I'm at it, would y'all send me any lists of bugs you have found - I'd
like to compile a "user" buglist to contrast with the Microport supplied one...

	(mail to plocher at puff.cs.wisc.edu - this is the most reliable mail
	 site I have access to - Internet, uucp, cs-net, and bitnet mail
	 all can find this spot...)

  -John Plocher

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