From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 03:55:40 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 C28C216A419; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:55:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6AF13C458; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:55:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.5) with SMTP id OAA10593; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:55:35 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:55:34 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Alfred Perlstein In-Reply-To: <20071128015521.GO71382@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Honza Holakovsky 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 03:55:40 -0000 On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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 :) Whatever tcsh(1) may say, kill -9 (aka kill -KILL) has always worked fine in csh here; I've never used kill -s. I'm as baffled as Stephen. paqi% cat - & [1] 5186 paqi% kill -9 5186 [1] Killed cat - Sure that's 'overkill', and that said, I've had processes that were unkillable short of rebooting, including an errant mpd4 beta earlier this year, when I certainly did try /bin/kill -9 too. [5.5-STABLE] Cheers, Ian