[plug] kill them dead

Michael Holland myk at myk.id.au
Sat Oct 14 09:17:19 WST 2006


On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> It doesn't hvae to be a kernel bug.
>
> You can't kill -9 a process locked waiting for NFS IO to complete, IIRC.
> There's more examples of that. Its certainly not a bug. :)

That is debatable :-)
At least you can mount NFS with the 'intr' option. But when a process can
only be killed by a power-cyle, I call that a bug. e.g. I/O driver
blocking on media errors. But then, IANAKP.



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