From: Russell Miller <rmiller@duskglow.com>
To: Jim Nelson <james4765@verizon.net>
Cc: DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net>,
"Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett@verizon.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>
Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:44:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411031644.58979.rmiller@duskglow.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4189586E.2070409@verizon.net>
On Wednesday 03 November 2004 16:15, Jim Nelson wrote:
> I did this to myself a number of times when I was first learning Samba -
> even an ls would become unkillable. You couldn't rmmod smb, since it was
> in use, and you couldn't kill the process, since it was waiting on a
> syscall. Ergh.
>
I'm not going to pretend to be a kernel expert, or really anything other than
a newbie when it comes to kernel internals, so please take this with the
merits it deserves - many, or none, depending.
Anyway, is there a way to simply signal a syscall that it is to be interrupted
and forcibly cause the syscall to end? Kicking the program execution out of
kernel space would be sufficient to "unstick" the process - and coupling that
with an automatic KILL signal may not be a bad idea.
I'm pretty sure that someone will think of a way why this wouldn't work with
very little effort. Please enlighten me?
--Russell
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Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 12:51 is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 14:33 ` bert hubert
2004-11-03 14:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 15:25 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 15:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 17:49 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 16:47 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 17:44 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 18:53 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:01 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 19:03 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 19:24 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:33 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 19:34 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 19:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-03 19:26 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-03 20:09 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 19:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-03 19:42 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 23:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 14:23 ` Paul Slootman
2004-11-04 14:56 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 18:24 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 19:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 20:53 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 19:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 20:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 22:15 ` Jim Nelson
2004-11-03 22:44 ` Russell Miller [this message]
2004-11-03 23:03 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 23:33 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-03 23:47 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-11-03 23:56 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 0:05 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-11-04 6:39 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-11-05 2:38 ` Elladan
2004-11-05 3:10 ` Tim Connors
2004-11-05 3:17 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-05 4:38 ` Elladan
2004-11-05 5:00 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-04 20:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-03 23:06 ` vlobanov
2004-11-04 10:04 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-04 17:16 ` Alex Bennee
2004-11-04 16:30 ` Pedro Venda (SYSADM)
2004-11-04 22:28 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-03 23:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 1:19 ` Michael Clark
2004-11-04 16:01 ` kernel
2004-11-04 16:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 16:47 ` kernel
2004-11-04 17:58 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 22:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:23 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 19:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 21:11 ` DervishD
2004-11-09 23:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-10 9:11 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 23:18 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-03 16:38 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 16:24 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 16:46 ` linux-os
2004-11-03 19:12 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:56 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 20:13 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-03 20:40 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 0:43 ` Kurt Wall
2004-11-04 1:01 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 1:38 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 1:45 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 1:56 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 1:59 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-11-04 20:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:07 ` Matthias Andree
2004-11-04 22:31 ` Peter Chubb
2004-11-04 23:33 ` Benno
2004-11-03 20:48 ` Tom Felker
2004-11-03 21:08 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 7:19 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 11:57 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:12 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 12:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:29 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 13:56 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:39 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 13:01 ` Ian Campbell
2004-11-04 14:07 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:24 ` Ian Campbell
2004-11-04 15:10 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 15:13 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 13:10 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 14:11 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:42 ` tlaurent
2004-11-04 15:14 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 20:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-05 0:29 ` Gene Heskett
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