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Subject: Re: Destroying processes
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@po.cwru.edu>
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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:30, Justin Hibbits wrote:

> Ok, thanks for clearing that up.  My reasoning for wanting this is because a CD
> I had mounted with cdfs was screwed up in the mount (file sizes were
> misreported, etc), and I couldn't umount it, even tho I could eject it with
> cdrecord -eject.  The umount process then went to sleep (with teh 'D' showing
> in ps/top), and I couldn't use that drive again until after a reboot.  That's
> when I got the idea that I should be able to destroy the process completely,
> annihilating everything with it, destroying any connections it has with the
> kernel, etc.  I guess it's a bad idea, given your statement :P

Yah you do not want to be able to kill that hung task.

At the same time, this is a cdfs so we DO want to fix that. I.e., while
it is unsafe and not clean to kill a sleeping task, you should never
need to.  So this bug should be fixed.

	Robert Love

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