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SubjectRe: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
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Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com> said on Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:38:50 -0800:
> If a process is in D state and receives a SIGKILL, assume it must exit
> within a few seconds or it's a bug, and dump as much information about
> it as is practical...?

Of course, it's not necessarily a bug. Someone could have just kicked
the ethernet, and so your process is stuck waiting for a read/write.

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TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
Theoretically one might have been wearing pants at work.
-- Anthony de Boer in Scary Devil Monastry
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