F11: kill -9 doesn't work

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Sat Jul 25 20:03:05 UTC 2009


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 :-).




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