Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 10:56:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu> To: Grey Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unkillable processes Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.BU-L4.10.9907251038310.1524-100000@bingsun1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990725102358.15970B-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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> > No. You can't kill a process which is in kernel mode. If it doesn't > come out, you won't be able to stop it. It seems rather unlikely that > that's the case here, though. It seems to me that a process can only suicide after it detects somebody wants to kill it. Anyway, it is the process itself that calls exit(). A process must be runnable to be killed (actually suicide). Am I right? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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