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Stubborn Processes



On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:00:23AM -0400, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> 
> >> My question is how can it be that root cannot kill a process?  
> 
> If root can not kill a process, that means the process is in a condition in
> which it can not be killed. (Nice reasoning huh?)
> 
> Actually, the only time I have seen this is when a process is hung in a
> device driver.

Or zombie processes.

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