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Date:      Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:15:24 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkenn@rebel.net.au>
To:        Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unkillable processes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907251109290.20318-100000@morden.rebel.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <199907250138.UAA06405@celery.dragondata.com>

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On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Kevin Day wrote:

> For one, do another 'ps' with the 'l' option, so you can see what it's stuck
> on.

  UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
 1000  1103  1086  29  75 20  5740  384 -      TWN   ??    0:00.00 (kvt)
 1000  1109  1103   0   4  0  1504    0 ttywri IWs+  p1    0:00.00 (tcsh)

 1000 92724  1086 279 105 20  5736  356 -      RN    ??  139:40.13 kvt -T Termi
 1000 92743 92724   2  18  0  1576    0 pause  IWs   p8    0:00.00 (tcsh)

> The second process is a zombie, which isn't killable until the parent tells
> it to go away. (Which could very possibly be the first kvt)

Both still present empty terminal windows on my desktop and were spawned 
from the KDE panel. The second one was running a copy of pine and was in
the same state as the other initially, until I kill -KILL'ed the pine
process, at which point it changed to what it is now.

Kris

> Kevin



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