Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [bug report] NFS and uninterruptable wait states | From | Doug McNaught <> | Date | 03 Sep 2001 13:42:59 -0400 |
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Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> writes:
> That's all well and good that the process won't get an error back, but imho, > a process should *NEVER* be beyond the reach of a SIGKILL. I mean, an > unkillable process prevents a clean shutdown, doesn't it? ( can't kill the > process, can't unmount the filesystem ).
D state has always meant unkillable. If you don't like it, you now know how to change it.
-Doug -- Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org/
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