F11: kill -9 doesn't work

[Terry Barnaby]

On 07/22/2009 03:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:01:50 +0100
> Terry Barnaby wrote:
>
>> I know 3D is horribly broken in F11 :( as well as many other things,
>> but I would have thought that kill -9 should still work ...
>
> Not if it is stuck inside the kernel, kill -9 only kills things
> as they come out of the kernel.
>
Kernel code should be written so that it aborts any possible infinite loop
when signals are awaiting processing. At least the drivers I have written
do (I hope :) )...