[X-Unix] Hung-up Finder can't be killed

[Alex]

On May 25, 2005, at 19:45, Eric F Crist wrote:

> kill -9 [pid] should *ALWAYS* work, as long as your running the kill 
> command as the root user.  There should be no exceptions to this.

Not quite... Read this

<http://aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/scotec6.html#cantkill>

and this

<http://wdb1.sco.com/kb/showta?taid=104438>

although it's SCO, the basic logic still obtains, I believe.
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