F11: kill -9 doesn't work

Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk
Sat Jul 25 21:24:57 UTC 2009


On 07/25/2009 09:03 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:57:14 +0100
> Terry Barnaby wrote:
>
>> In my eyes as an old Unix
>> developer standards are slipping ...
>
> I dunno. Perhaps the oldest code in Unix is the code that
> generates corefile, and you've never been able to kill -9
> that once a process starts coredumping multiple gigabytes
> over a slow NFS link. I wish they'd put a check in there :-).
>
At least that would finish eventually and the system
would continue running :)




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