Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:14:22 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@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: <20071127201422.GA68845@eos.sc1.parodius.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'. What's even more awesome is that the csh manpage actually refers to the use of the kill -[signal] syntax: or from a command run at completion time: > complete kill 'p/*/`ps | awk \{print\ \$1\}`/' > kill -9 [^D] 23113 23377 23380 23406 23429 23529 23530 PID Hooray for consistency. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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