[plug] kill them dead

[Michael Holland]

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.