On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Michael Gersten wrote:
> > > Ever see a process that survives kill -9?
> > The init-process survives it always.
>
> I've seen programs survive it. As far as I can tell, they
> are waiting for an IO operation to complete, and it
> has been lost (or perhaps an NFS hardmount?)
>
> Alt-sysreq-k? I'll keep that in mind. But what if the
> program is surviving kill -9? It does happen,
> at least on 2.0.34 kernels.
>
Alt-sysrq-k only works with kernel >= 2.2.0
If you have an 2.0.x kernel, then there are two ways:
1. You upgrade your kernel
2. You mail to Alan Cox (=maintainer of 2.0.x kernel) to add support for
the sysrq-key.
Cheers,
Christoph Egger
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
