Re: 'crafty' took ages to kill

From: Ian Fitchet (idf_at_lunanbay.LESS-SPAM.com)
Date: 12/30/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:50:08 +0000

see_my_signature_for_my_real_address@hotmail.com (Dr. David Kirkby) writes:

> What can stop a process responding to SIGKILL ??

 Nothing can stop it responding to SIGKILL once the signal has been
 delivered. A SIGKILL might well be queued for the process
 (unblockable and unignorable as SIGKILL is) but cannot be delivered
 because, in Solaris: a) the process might be doing IO, b) the process
 might be being traced.

 There are probably other vital and important reasons why the expected
 behaviour hasn't happened yet.

 And then there are bugs in the OS. Yes, even in Solaris.

Cheers,

        Ian