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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: Re: an unkillable process (again)
In-Reply-To: <200012220202.eBM22oc75560@cwsys.cwsent.com> from Cy Schubert -
 ITSD Open Systems Group at "Dec 21, 2000 06:02:25 pm"
To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 12:57:13 -0500 (EST)
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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group once stated:

=In message <200012202226.eBKMQf100632@misha.privatelabs.com>, Mikhail 
=Teterin writes:
=> Here it is:
=> 
=>   425 mi       -18   0 45308K   144K swwrt    4:25  0.10%  0.10% communicator
=> -l
=> 
=> For some bizarre reasons of  its own, Netscape went into swap-writing
=> binge. Why did it make it immune to ``kill -9''?
=
=Then it appears  that swwrt has a higher priority  than kill has, which
=it should have.

Rather confusing... kill -9 does not deliver any signals to the process.
It is there to kill. Shouldn't it have the higher priority?

Also, anything that  prevents root from killing a process  is not right,
IMHO. This  leaves "reboot"  as the  only option  left, which  WILL kill
everybody anyway, resulting  in all possible data losses,  etc. that the
"unkillability" tries to prevent.

	-mi


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