On 06/15/2011 02:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 21:55 +0930, Tim wrote: >> You can log out and find some things still >> running in your name, that haven't quit, and have no reason to still >> be >> around (it's not as if you started up some services that you wanted to >> run in your name, and stay running after you logged out). > > And if you do, that's what nohup is for. > >> e.g. Several instances of gvfs-fuse-daemon, crashed mplayers, >> gconfd-2, >> firefox (that requires a reboot to kill, not even kill -9 will kill >> it), > > If kill -9 won't kill it, it's suspended in an uninterruptible state in > the kernel, usually waiting for some "short term" event that will never > happen. IOW it's a bug. This sort of thing has always existed in Unix > and related systems and is a PITA, but it's not easy to fix. > > poc >
But *all* such processes I saw could be killed by "kill" or "kill -9" (from some tty after having logged out) so why they still exist? -- Joachim Backes <joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de> http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
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