From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 01:55:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB14B16A420 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:55:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB0F13C447 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:55:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 44C101A4D7E; Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:55:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:55:21 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Honza Holakovsky , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071128015521.GO71382@elvis.mu.org> References: <20071126190720.GD19393@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20071127161645.GA55166@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20071127132339.C10340@cauchy.math.missouri.edu> <20071127195906.GB60210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071127195906.GB60210@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Subject: Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:55:21 -0000 * Roland Smith [071127 11:59] 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'. Is it too late to remove csh from the base system? :D -- - Alfred Perlstein