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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Killing background processes on logout [was Re: resolved]
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:43:41AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>
>     I sometimes have to logout and login again to be able to kill
> wild threads of Icedove which survive in a blocked state after the
> windows have been closed. The idea to be able to kill all processes
> started in a session is not a bad idea. Corbet explains this very
> well and also says the idea has been around for many years.


The problem I have is the processes that are in permanent wait state
and cnnot be cancelled, because they are waiting for a return from a
system call that will never return.

killall, kill -9 and such seem to have no effect.

-- hendrik