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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:59:06 +0100
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
Cc:        Honza Holakovsky <holakac@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID
Message-ID:  <20071127195906.GB60210@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20071127132339.C10340@cauchy.math.missouri.edu>
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:24:56PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Honza Holakovsky wrote:
>=20
>> Well, didn't know that, "/bin/kill -9 wdfs_PID" works, great
>>=20
>> Thanks a lot, after your advice I read an article about csh built-in
>> commands, never heard of it from any fbsd handbook...
>=20
> I am completely baffled why this worked.  Why would /bin/kill -9 work whe=
n=20
> 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'.

Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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