killing a stuck "D" process

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:14 AM -0400 7/29/05, Gaspar Bakos wrote:
>Hi, Damian,
 ...
>> o Kill its parent.  In your case, the parent is init, so this is
>>    equivalent to rebooting.
>
>And this is what finally we resorted to.
>It is a pity that such situations can happen where a'la windoz style,
>the only thing that helps is reboot. I am not used to that...

I don't know why the parent is init (I'm a newbie), but it would be good if
in the future it were somegthing more killable.  Perhaps it is run from an
initscript, and could instead be run from something run by an initscript?
Say, the initscript runs a detached shell script which runs the command in
a subshell?  (Like I know what I'm talking about.)
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