Failed kill -9

[Edwin R. Carp]

In article <[628]unix at oldcolo.UUCP> dave at oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:
>How else, short of a reboot, can I kill a process on a port that
>kill -9 won't kill?
>

What's happening is that the system is hanging on the exit() call.  exit()
calls close() to close all of the remaining open files.  When it gets to the
modem, it can't close the port (or, more correctly, it hangs closing the port)
because it's waiting for some sort of signal from the modem (usually DSR, CTS,
or CD to drop).  Make sure that DSR drops when the party hangs up, etc.

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