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From: Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process!  Die!
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:30:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061030163013.014e91fc@lx-arnau.pic.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1162220472.12354.70.camel@camille.espersunited.com>

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:01:12 -0600
Michael Sullivan wrote:

> I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really
> frustrating.  I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill
> and kill -9 <pid> doesn't touch.  For instance, this is taken from
> top:

killall = kill
The only diff is: killall - kill processes by name

Maybe processes are in a state where signals could not be
delivered, and you must wait until that state change...

If you want to see what signals a process is waiting for, you could use
ps.

Cheers!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-30 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30 15:01 [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die! Michael Sullivan
2006-10-30 15:13 ` fire-eyes
2006-10-30 15:30 ` Arnau Bria [this message]
2006-10-30 23:35 ` Iain Buchanan
2006-10-31  0:34   ` Michael Sullivan
2006-10-31  2:33 ` Henk Boom
2006-10-31  2:48 ` Richard Fish
2006-10-31  7:33   ` Greg Bur
2006-11-03  4:44   ` Walter Dnes
2006-11-03  7:09     ` Alan McKinnon
2006-11-03 18:39       ` Richard Fish
2006-11-03 19:02         ` Michael Sullivan
2006-11-03 19:28           ` Petr Uzel
2006-10-31  7:36 ` Martins Steinbergs

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