[Gllug] unmounting file systems

[t.clarke]

Tet wrote:-

>>fuser -m /dev/filesys -k; sleep 10, umount filesys
>>
>>and see what happens
>
>Yes, but the particular situation I want to do this for is when there's
>a process in an unkillable state (i.e., in an uniterruptable sleep).
>

This has long struck me as a failing of Unix/linux kernels - the inability
to kill processes in certain states.  Maybe someone involved in kernel
development should look at ways of killing processes from within the kernel
by means of a system-call, rather than sending the process a signal ?

Tim


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