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

[Doug McNaught]

Russell Miller <rmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

It was already mentioned in this thread that the bookkeeping required
to clean up properly from such an abort would add a lot of overhead
and slow down the normal, non-buggy case.

-Doug
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