Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 1997 10:21:45 +0100 (MET) | From | Michiel Boland <> | Subject | Re: Zombies Have Taken Over... |
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Pete Harlan wrote:
> Thank you all for your suggestions; it would appear that my init > process had hung somehow
Apparently newer versions of init do a sync() every once in a while. This seems totally useless and even dangerous to me (system becomes unusable if sync hangs).
Any ideas why the sync() has been put in?
[The author of sysvinit appears to be on a world trip and cannot be contacted]
Cheers Michiel
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