Possible methods for the kernel to terminate a process
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From: Xiachen Dong on 22 Jun 2010 16:00 Hi, We have a quick question. Besides sending signals, are there any other ways for the kernel to terminate a process? We have such question because we try to kill a user space process by the shell command kill and we cannot kill it probably because it is in an un-interruptible sleep/wait. However, we still wish to be able to kill the user space process under this circumstance. To our knowledge of the kernel, if the kernel wants to kill a process when special event such as exception happens, it usually sends a signal to the process. We really cannot think of any other methods for a kernel to terminate a process. Can anyone provide some hints on this? Is rebooting the machine the only solution to the problem? Thanks, Xiachen _________________________________________________________________ Turn down-time into play-time with Messenger games http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9734385-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |