[svlug] Processes that don't die with -9

[kevin dankwardt]

That LWN is great. Thanks. I hadn't heard about KILLABLE.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Sarah Newman <newmans at sonic.net> wrote:

> On 12/04/2014 02:40 PM, Sarah Newman wrote:
> > I suppose if killing one thread from the group took out an
> uninterruptible thread in that group, it
> > would be a bug and should cause a system crash. Though the kernel lets
> you do other things that can
> > cause system crashes, such as unbinding a device in use.
>
> Pertinent article about killable vs. uninterruptible:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/288056/
>
>


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