Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:08:32 -0500 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, Honza Holakovsky <holakac@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID Message-ID: <20071128000832.GA89600@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20071127195906.GB60210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <f996cc420711260730n1b226483la2b813753f9496f8@mail.gmail.com> <20071126190720.GD19393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <f996cc420711270405u539d2fccrdbce005d14e88834@mail.gmail.com> <20071127161645.GA55166@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <f996cc420711271114r3bad8d5m6b8e81da1373206d@mail.gmail.com> <20071127132339.C10340@cauchy.math.missouri.edu> <20071127195906.GB60210@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:59:06PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:24:56PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Honza Holakovsky wrote: > > > >> Well, didn't know that, "/bin/kill -9 wdfs_PID" works, great > >> > >> Thanks a lot, after your advice I read an article about csh built-in > >> commands, never heard of it from any fbsd handbook... > > > > I am completely baffled why this worked. Why would /bin/kill -9 work when > > the built in csh kill -9 wouldn't? > > According to the manual page for the built-in kill command, it > recognizes 'kill -s 9', but not 'kill -9'. The man page is wrong % xcalc & [1] 4730 % kill -BUS 4730 % [1] Bus error xcalc % xcalc & [1] 4731 % kill -10 4731 % [1] Bus error xcalc % echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh % LSOF shows I'm using the system tcsh, and AFAIK it behaves the same for being invoked as both /bin/csh and /bin/tcsh Gary
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