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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!purdue!news.bu.edu!acs2.bu.edu!mi From: mi@bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Non dying process. Serious? Date: 7 Nov 1995 20:06:56 GMT Organization: Boston University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <47oe90$mhh@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: acs2.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] For a while I had the idea that `kill -9' must kill -- it is a signal handled by the OS, not by process. Well, ppp will not die. The way to achieve that is simple -- specify wrong memory address for the COM-port of interest. In my case, kerenl did not detect my mistake, reporting presence of the COM port. Then ppp told be "dial failed" and refused to exit. -9 did not help. Similar thing was happening to pppd until I figured out the proper settings. Now, I perfectly understand, that it was my mistake, but the fact, that I can not kill a process bothers me.... -mi -- "Windows for dummies"