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kill -9 in script
In article <slrn8es72g.kah.James@linux.home>, James Stevenson <mistral@stevenson.zetnet.co.uk> wrote: >kill -9 >does not always work True, but in that case there is nothing that will kill the process. These days, I tend to use the sequence -15, -1, -2, -9 (TERM, HUP, INT, KILL). If you're going to the trouble of writing a kill script, you might as well do it properly, and put in the extra logic to try one or two of the catchable signals before going in for the KILL. >i think the only case is if the process is in an unitrubble sleep >shows up as "D" in ps and top Yes. Once upon a time, this could only happen if there was a hardware problem with one of your disks: in BSD at least, only I/O to a disk device causes a process to sleep() at a priority where signals are not posted. Then along came NFS... :-( Tim. -- Tim Goodwin | "If you don't know what closures are, you probably don't Leicester, UK | want to know what closures are." -- Larry Wall
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From: tjg@star.le.ac.uk (Tim Goodwin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: kill -9 in script Date: 13 Apr 2000 09:34:17 +0100 Message-ID: <8d40qv$8lu$1@ltpcg.star.le.ac.uk> References: <38ED6B3C.7C30B95E@DIEspammer.earthlink.net> <w0oH4.50$Nc4.1878@burlma1-snr2> <slrn8es72g.kah.James@linux.home>