can't kill some processes under SunOS

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <3046 at bayes.ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> kthompso at ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson) writes:
>Under what conditions does kill -9 not kill a process?

When they're sleeping (in the KERNEL) with priority less than P_ZERO.
Many device drivers do not time out when an operation blocks forever;
I consider that a bug in those device drivers, although I understand
why they tend to be written that way.