Failed kill -9
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Sat Dec 23 14:19:34 AEST 1989
In article <822 at scorn.sco.COM>, rogerk at sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) writes:
> signal. If you get into one of these routines and can't get out (bug
> or HW failure, its never _normal_), the process will be unkillable
> by any signal. More details can be supplied for those interested.
Just a little bit of nit-picking.
A very normal way of getting into this situation is to go to a
terminal and cat /etc/termcap. Once the output starts, do a CTRL-S.
after a few seconds (once the output buffering has filled up) the cat
process will no longer be killable. However, once a CTRL-Q is typed
at the terminal, any signals sent to the cat process will be delivered.
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