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- From: arne@nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Arne Ludwig)
- Subject: Re: Process 'purge' revisited.. Unix missing this?
- Message-ID: <arne.721414808@nats5>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
- References: <TPAQUETTE.92Nov6132758@gumby.ita.lgc.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 17:00:08 GMT
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- tpaquette@ita.lgc.com (Trevor Paquette) writes:
- >It is impossible to 'purge' a process witing on a hung device.
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- An unkillable process waiting on a hung device is just a sign of a broken
- device driver.
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- > Is this a deficency in Unix? Should it be added? Will I ever win the
- >lottery?
-
- No. No. Perhaps.
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- Arne Ludwig
- ludwiga@informatik.uni-hamburg.de arne@rrzbu.hanse.de
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