[X-Unix] Re: cp question

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.02.2005 um 10:38 schrieb 
x-unix-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com:

> I did it wrong and left out the space after the @ sign. The result was 
> a process that simply could not be killed, even by the superuser and 
> even with -9. Software restart resulted in a kernel panic that did not 
> terminate for over 5 minutes. Hardware restart fixed it. I thought 
> such things were impossible in OS neXt!

Such things can happen too with a lot of swap files allocated (> 1 GB): 
at shut-down Mac OS X never finishes to free the allocated disk space. 
And since your tcsh script went into what's the street address of Apple 
(Infinite Loop) it allocated quite some swap space.

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Greetings

   Pete