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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Subject: Re: umount, <defunct>
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.071156.1766@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Keywords: umount <defunct>
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- References: <1256@ceylon.gte.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:11:56 GMT
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- (These have *got* to be in the comp.unix.questions FAQ.)
-
- In article <1256@ceylon.gte.com> hhw0@harvey.gte.com (Hansel Wan)
- writes:
- >
- > 1. How do you get rid of <defunct> processes?
-
- There is no program to do this. <defunct> processes are just ones that
- have died, but whose parents have not asked for their return values
- yet. If you're seeing these stick around, it is undoubtedly a bug in
- the parent program.
-
- > 2. How do you check who/what is keeping a harddisk device busy?
-
- `fuser' and `lsof' work great for me. The former comes with AIX; the
- latter you can get off the net, and does more.
-
- j.cc.purdue.edu:/pucc/lsof.tar.Z
-
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