Re: Unkillable Process

Arjan van de Ven (root@fenrus.demon.nl)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:41:04 +0200

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Hi,
> I am using a call to kernel_thread to create a process from within a
> system call. This process loops forever doing something, and waits for a
> semaphore inside the loop using down_interruptible(). I am having a hard
> time killing this process using "kill -" TERM or 9,

As soon as your thread is sent a signal, the down_interruptible should fall
through. The only thing you have to do is break out of YOUR loop when
signal_pending(current) is true.

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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