From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@po.cwru.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Destroying processes
Date: 11 Dec 2002 14:38:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1039635486.832.86.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021211193049.GH147@lothlorien.cwru.edu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-11 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-11 19:01 Justin Hibbits
2002-12-11 19:21 ` Robert Love
2002-12-11 19:30 ` Justin Hibbits
2002-12-11 19:38 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-12-11 19:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
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