Unkillable killed

Adam McDougall mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu
Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:41:34 -0400


You should be able to kill any process with kill -KILL (or -9) except
zombies and those stuck in disk wait (state D in ps).  If its a zombie,
use ps to find its parent process and kill that instead.  

#define SIGKILL         9       /* kill (cannot be caught or ignored) */

Michael Robert Szumlinski wrote:
> 
> Okay, so somehow when I exited the shell the process died
> on its own and spat out an error about "stopped processes" on the way
> out. If I run into this in the future, how can I tell if a process has
> been "stopped"
> 
> -Mike
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