Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?

[Russell Miller]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 16:15, Jim Nelson wrote:

> I did this to myself a number of times when I was first learning Samba -
> even an ls would become unkillable.  You couldn't rmmod smb, since it was
> in use, and you couldn't kill the process, since it was waiting on a
> syscall.  Ergh.
>

I'm not going to pretend to be a kernel expert, or really anything other than 
a newbie when it comes to kernel internals, so please take this with the 
merits it deserves - many, or none, depending.

Anyway, is there a way to simply signal a syscall that it is to be interrupted 
and forcibly cause the syscall to end?  Kicking the program execution out of 
kernel space would be sufficient to "unstick" the process - and coupling that 
with an automatic KILL signal may not be a bad idea.

I'm pretty sure that someone will think of a way why this wouldn't work with 
very little effort.  Please enlighten me?

--Russell

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