On Monday 05 August 2002 14:53, Anders Johansson wrote:
I think it's possible to remove processes that are hanging in the way Derek described, if you have the premptible kernel patch. With that patch, even kernel processes can be interrupted by user space signals, and so it should be possible to kill them (I haven't actually tested this, but that is my understanding of things). I don't know when the preemptible patch will be in the main source tree, but until that happens you can always patch it yourself. Maybe someone at SuSE has a version of the patch that's been tested against the SuSE default kernel, I don't know. If you find out, please let me know. I've been thinking about testing that patch for a while.
I have been informed that this is not something the preemptible kernel patch does.