[X-Unix] Kill

Alex alist at sprint.ca
Wed Feb 25 18:49:28 PST 2004


On Wednesday, Feb 25, 2004, at 10:27 Canada/Eastern, Cloyce D. 
Spradling wrote:

> [...] if you ask to read or write to a disk that the OS thinks is still
> present and functional, but isn't, and if the driver can't detect this
> condition, you get an unkillable process. [...]

Interesting. Yes, I've come across this situation before, when a disk 
failed, but I don't think it was the case in this particular instance.

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