SUMMARY: how to clear an <exiting> process??

From: Gary Casterline (casterln@are.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 07 1991 - 12:07:10 CDT


my original request:
>[...] In the process I hung the terminal and when I tried to
>kill the process I ended up with this situation:
>
>USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
>nan 3619 0.0 0.0 112 0 ? I 16:22 0:00 <exiting>
>
>I've tried removing /dev/ttyi5 and regenerating it with mknod.
>Any hints much appreciated.

The shortest and ultimately correct answer
came From: Mike Raffety <oconnor!miker@oddjob.uchicago.edu>

        Reboot.

Others recommended 'trace -p 3619', 'gcore 3619',or 'kill -CHLD 3619'.
These will be valuable someday, I'm sure. But in this case,
I got 'no such process' every time.

Thanks to all who offered help:
        selina@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca
        Jerry M. Carlin
        Lauren Massa-Lochridge
        trinkle@cs.purdue.edu
        Todd S. Antonson
        Mike Raffety
        fabrice cuq
        Benson I. Margulies
        mark kraitchman
        Kevin McElearney

Gary Casterline Agricultural & Resource Economics
casterln@are.berkeley.edu 207 Giannini Hall
(415) 642-5583 UC Berkeley, CA 94720



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