From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 07:19:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA27726 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 07:19:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA27712 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 07:19:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id QAA29493; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:19:45 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (QAA01090); Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:20:21 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199607191620.QAA01090@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: Killing processes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:20:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bala@cst.com.au In-Reply-To: <199607190705.RAA02664@skeg.cst.com.au> from "Bala Periasamy" at Jul 19, 96 05:05:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How to kill processes in the "D" state. As I know, you cannot. You can send them a signal, but until they go to another running state, they cannot get it. (As ``uninterruptible'' means.) -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky